Naile Sultan (daughter of Abdulmejid I)
Naile Sultan | |
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New Mosque , Istanbul | |
Spouse |
Kabaksal Çerkes Mehmed Pasha
(m. 1876) |
Dynasty | Ottoman |
Father | Abdulmejid I |
Mother | Şayeste Hanım |
Religion | Sunni Islam |
Naile Sultan (
Early life
Naile Sultan was born on 30 September 1856 in the Dolmabahçe Palace.[1] Her father was Sultan Abdulmejid I, and her mother was Şayeste Hanım,[2] an Abkhazian. She had a stillbirth elder brother, Şehzade Abdüllah, and a younger adoptive brother, Mehmed VI. Naile lost her father when she was five.[2]
Marriage
Naile, like her half-sister Behice Sultan, was ill with tuberculosis from an early age and grew up very isolated. She was described as graceful, with a long, gaunt face, very delicate features, dark rimmed eyes, a thin neck and a sweet, sad smile.[3]
In 1876, her mother arranged her marriage to Kabasakal Çerkes Mehmed Pasha, a relative of her, brother of
Death
Naile Sultan died on 18 January 1882 at the age of twenty five because tuberculosis and unhappiness, and was buried in the mausoleum of new ladies in New Mosque. Her mother Şayeste Hanım donated a large inscription plate depicting Mecca and Medina to the tomb .[1][5] After her death Mehmed Pasha married first a foreign woman and later Esma Sultan, daughter of Sultan Abdulaziz and Gevheri Kadın.[8][9] The two moved in Naile Sultan's palace in which Mehmed Pasha and Naile previously lived.[10] Her mother outlived her by thirty years, dying in 1912.[11]
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See also
References
- ^ a b Uluçay 2011, p. 232.
- ^ a b c Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 633.
- ^ Necdet Sakaoğlu, The Female Sultans of This Property
- ^ Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 634.
- ^ a b Brookes 2010, p. 285.
- ^ Brookes 2010, p. 159.
- ^ Kahya, Özge (2012). Sultan Abdülmecid'in kızı Mediha Sultan'ın hayatı (1856-1928). p. 53.
- ^ Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 635.
- ^ Brookes 2010, p. 282.
- ^ Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 645-6.
- ^ Brookes 2010, p. 289.
Sources
- Brookes, Douglas Scott (2010). The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher: Voices from the Ottoman Harem. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-78335-5.
- Sakaoğlu, Necdet (2008). Bu mülkün kadın sultanları: Vâlide sultanlar, hâtunlar, hasekiler, kadınefendiler, sultanefendiler. Oğlak Yayıncılık. ISBN 978-9-753-29623-6.
- Uluçay, Mustafa Çağatay (2011). Padişahların kadınları ve kızları. Ankara: Ötüken. ISBN 978-9-754-37840-5.