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t. e. Concubinage in the Muslim world was the practice of Muslim men entering into intimate relationships without marriage, [ 2] with enslaved women, [ 3] though in rare, exceptional cases, sometimes with free women. [ 4][ 5][ 6] If the concubine gave birth to a child, she attained a higher status known as umm al-walad.
Valide Sultan. Ottoman Sultan Mehmed III, to whom Safiye was a Valide Sultan during 1595–1603. When Murad died in 1595, Safiye arranged for her son Mehmed to succeed as a sultan, and she became the Valide Sultan —one of the most powerful in Ottoman history. She became more active in internal and foreign affairs due to her son being ...
Şehzade Mustafa ( Ottoman Turkish: شهزاده مصطفى; c. 1516/1517 – 6 October 1553) was an Ottoman prince, son of sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and his concubine Mahidevran Hatun. He was the governor of Manisa from 1533 to 1541, of Amasya from 1541 to 1553, when he was executed by his father's order on charges of sedition and treason.
Nur Jahan ( lit. ' Light of the world '; 31 May 1577 – 18 December 1645), [ 2] born Mehr-un-Nissa was the twentieth wife and chief consort of the Mughal emperor Jahangir . More decisive and proactive than her husband, Nur Jahan is considered by certain historians to have been the real power behind the throne for more than a decade.
Alp Arslan, [d] born Muhammad bin Dawud Chaghri, [3] was the second sultan of the Seljuk Empire and great-grandson of Seljuk, the eponymous founder of the dynasty. He greatly expanded the Seljuk territory and consolidated his power, defeating rivals to the south and northwest, and his victory over the Byzantines at the Battle of Manzikert, in 1071, ushered in the Turkmen settlement of Anatolia.
Selim II ( Ottoman Turkish: سليم ثانى, romanized : Selīm-i s ānī; Turkish: II. Selim; 28 May 1524 – 15 December 1574), also known as Selim the Blond (Turkish: Sarı Selim) or Selim the Drunkard [2] ( Sarhoş Selim ), was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1566 until his death in 1574. He was a son of Suleiman the Magnificent and ...
Gülbahar entered in Mehmed's harem in 1446, when he was still a prince and the governor of Amasya. She had two children, a son, Şehzade Bayezid (future Bayezid II) born in 1447 in Demotika, and a daughter, Gevherhan Hatun, [14] born in 1446, who married Ughurlu Muhammad, a son of Aq Qoyunlu Sultan Uzun Hasan in 1474. [15]
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 ...