Abish Khatun

Abish Khatun (died 1287) also known as Abisha Hadud Khatun and Aubee Khatton was the regnant of Atabeg from 1263 to 1275. She was also the governor of Fars from 1283 to 1287.

Biography

Abish Khatun was nominated as ruler by the Ilkhan of the Khwarazham Empire in Persia, after her mother, Terken Khatun, was killed. Her name was read in the khutha and struck on the coinage. In 1274, when she was about fifteen, she was taken to the Ilkhan's ordu, and married to Tash-Möngke (Mengü Temür), a younger son of Hulagu Khan. This was a marriage, forbidden in Islamic law, between a Muslim woman and a shamanist, but presumably the will of the Ilkhan transcended all other considerations. She became his chief wife and had two daughters by him, Kürdüjin and Alghanchi. When her husband was sent as governor to Fars, she was retained in the ordu, but 1283, the new Ilkhan, Ahmad Tegüder (1282-84), recalled him from Shiraz and appointed her in his place. Her financial recklessness, coinciding with a drought throughout Fars, meant that she defaulted on her revenue payments, so that Ahmad Tegüder's successor, Arghun (1284-91), ordered her to appear at the ordu. Perhaps relying on the good offices of Öljei Khatun, Hülegü's widow, to protect her from the Ilkhan's wrath, she declined to go and behaved outrageously toward the officials sent to supersede her. She was eventually forced to capitulate and submitted to the Ilkhan (Öljei Khatun did indeed intercede for her), dying at the ordu in 1287, after having lived (circa 1269-87).^[1]

References

Bibliography

• Ann K. S. Lambton (January 1, 1988). Continuity and Change in Medieval Persia. SUNY Press. ISBN 978-0-887-06133-2. 

External links

• Ladies first:Significant women in Iranian and regional history
• Historically Significant Women of Iran and the Neighbouring Countries