Sultan-Agha Khanum

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Sultan-Agha Khanum
Safavid Shah
SpouseTahmasp I
IssuePari Khan Khanum
Suleiman Mirza
HouseShamkhal (by birth)
Safavid (by marriage)
FatherChoban b. Budai
ReligionIslam

Sultan-Agha Khanum (Persian: سلطان آقا خانم, romanizedSoltān-Āqā Xānum) also in Western sources Corasi was a Safavid queen consort of Kumyk origin, as the second wife of Safavid king Tahmasp I (r. 1524–1576).

Life

She was

Caucasian peoples living beyond Derbent in Dagestan.[2] Her father was Choban b. Budai (d. 1574), Shamkhal of Tarki.[3][4]

She was the sister of the Safavid-Kumyk noble Shamkhal Sultan, future shamkhals Eldar, Mohammad, Andi and Girai,[4] and her brother, Emamqoli Khan was also in Safavid service.[5]

She married Tahmasp I c. 1547, and became the mother of princess Pari Khan Khanum and prince Suleiman Mirza (b. 28 March 1554, Nakhchivan).[6][7][8]

References

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  2. ^ Manz, Beatrice; Haneda, Masashi. Encyclopaedia Iranica. Vol. 4. pp. 816–819. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  3. S2CID 234645617
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  6. ^ Parsadust 2009.
  7. ^ Nashat & Beck 2003, p. 147.
  8. ^ Bierbrier 1997, pp. 235, 239–240.

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