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.
Name (Birth Name) | Son | Ethnicity | ||||||||||
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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 | Unknown | ||||||||||
Khan Aqa Begum or Maryam Begum [7] | Ismail III | Unknown |
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