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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 ...
Women in Turkey. Women obtained full political participation rights in Turkey, including the right to vote and the right to run for office locally, in 1930, and nationwide in 1934. Article 10 of the Turkish Constitution bans any discrimination, state or private, on the grounds of sex. It is the first country to have a woman as the President of ...
Sunni Islam, previously Eastern Orthodox Christian. 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 ...
Emine Semiye, together with her older sister Fatma Aliye, was a significant figure for the Ottoman women movement. Emine Semiye was much more progressive and less orthodox than her sister. She supported an image of women, educated mothers and wives, imposed by the official discourse during the rule of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
Nezihe Muhiddin Tepedelengil (1889 – 10 February 1958 [1]) was a Turkish women's rights activist, suffragette, journalist, writer and political leader.. In the 20th century Ottoman Empire, Nezihe Muhiddin was a pioneer of the women's movement who fought to ensure the recognition of women's political rights after declaration of republican regime.
Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent adorned in a richly embroidered kaftan. A stylish young woman of the mid-17th century. She wears şalvar (trousers), a long, sheer gömlek (chemise), and an ankle-length purple entari (outer robe) with the ends tucked up. The fur lining of her yelek (jacket or vest) marks her as wealthy and high-ranking.
Nahda. The Nahda (Arabic: النّهضة, romanized: an-nahḍa, meaning "the Awakening"), also referred to as the Arab Awakening or Enlightenment, was a cultural movement that flourished in Arab -populated regions of the Ottoman Empire, notably in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, and Tunisia, during the second half of the 19th century and the early 20th ...