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In the Ottoman Empire, women enjoyed a diverse range of rights and were limited in diverse ways depending on the time period, as well as their religion and class. The empire, first as a Turkoman beylik, and then a multi-ethnic, multi-religious empire, was ruled in accordance to the qanun, the semi-secular body of law enacted by Ottoman sultans.
The Sultanate of Women (Ottoman Turkish: قادينلر سلطنتى, romanized: Kadınlar saltanatı) was a period when some consorts, mothers, sisters and grandmother of the sultans of the Ottoman Empire exerted extraordinary political influence. This phenomenon took place from roughly 1534 to 1683, beginning in the reign of Suleiman the ...
She was known for her many political marriages. Ayşe Sultan (2 November 1887 – 10 August 1960), daughter of Abdülhamid II. She was known for publishing her memoirs by the name of Babam Sultan Abdülhamid in 1960. Ayşe Gülnev Sultan (born 17 January 1971), great-great-great-granddaughter of Murad V.
Sultan (سلطان) is a word of Arabic origin, originally meaning "authority" or "dominion". By the beginning of the 16th century, the title of sultan, carried by both men and women of the Ottoman dynasty, was replacing other titles by which prominent members of the imperial family had been known (notably hatun for women and bey for men), with imperial women carrying the title of "Sultan ...
Mihrimah Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: مهرماه سلطان, " sun and moon " or " light of the moon ", Turkish pronunciation: [mihɾiˈmah suɫˈtan]; 1522 – 25 January 1578) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Ottoman Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent and his wife, Hürrem Sultan. She was the most powerful imperial princess in Ottoman ...
Hürrem Sultan (Turkish pronunciation: [hyɾˈɾæm suɫˈtan]; Ottoman Turkish: خرّم سلطان; " the joyful one "; c. 1504 – 15 April 1558), also known as Roxelana (Ukrainian: Роксолана, romanized:Roksolana), was the chief consort and legal wife of the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. She became one of the most ...
Born Tacünnisa Hatice Halime Sultan Hatun of the princely House of Candar, she was the daughter of Isfendiyâr, eighth bey of the Candar Beylik.. When Murad II, the Ottoman sultan, sided against Isfendiyar and alongside his rebellious son Kıvameddin Kazım Bey, to whom he betrothed one of his sisters, Fatma Sultan Hatun, Isfendiyar offered Murad peace and proposed to seal the deal with a ...
Raziye Hatun. Raziye Hatun is buried inside Arap Mosque in Istanbul. Ayşe Raziye Hatun (Ottoman Turkish: راضیه خاتون; " the living one " or " womanly " and " the accepting one " died 26 June 1597) was a lady-in-waiting to Sultan Murad III of the Ottoman Empire.