List of mothers of the Safavid shahs

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This list includes the biological mothers of Safavid shahs. There were eleven shahs (kings) of the Safavid Empire in ten generations. Throughout 235-years history the shahs were all members of the same house, the house of Safavid.

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Name (Birth Name)SonEthnicity
Safavid Iran
Alam-Shah Begum (Halima, Mart[h]a) Ismail I half Pontic Greek - half Turcoman [1]
Tajlu Khanum (Shah-Begi Khanum) Tahmasp I Turcoman [2]
Sultanum Begum Ismail II and Mohammad Khodabanda Turcoman
Khayr al-Nisa Begum Abbas I Mazanderani
Dilaram Khanum Shah Safi Georgian [3]
Anna Khanum Abbas II Circassian [4]
Nakihat Khanum Suleiman I of Persia Circassian [5]
Unknown Sultan Husayn Circassian [6]
After the Siege of Isfahan
Unknown Tahmasp II Unknown
Unknown Abbas III Unknown
After Nader Shah
Shahrbanu Begum [7] Suleiman II Turcoman
Khan Aqa Begum or Maryam Begum [7] Ismail III Turcoman

See also

References

  1. ↑ Peter Charanis. "Review of Emile Janssens' Trébizonde en Colchide", Speculum, Vol. 45, No. 3,, (Jul., 1970), p. 476
  2. ↑ Women in Iran: From the Rise of Islam to 1800 ed. Nashat and Beck (University of Illinois Press, 2003) p.145
  3. ↑ Sussan Babaie and others: Slaves of the Shah (I.B. Tauris, 2003) p.104
  4. ↑ Andrew J. Newman Safavid Iran (I.B.Tauris) p.81
  5. ↑ Newman 2008, pp. 55, 93, 100.
  6. ↑ Matthee 2012.
  7. 1 2 Kissling, H. J.; Spuler, Bertold; Barbour, N.; Trimingham, J. S.; Braun, H.; Hartel, H. (August 1, 1997). The Last Great Muslim Empires. BRILL. p. 210. ISBN   978-9-004-02104-4.

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