List of the mothers of the Safavid Shahs

This list includes the biological mothers of Safavid Shahs. There were eleven shahs (kings) of the Safavid Empire in ten generations. Throughout the 235-year history of the Safavid Dynasty the shahs were all members of the same house, the house of Safavid.

Name (Birth Name) Son Ethnicity Place of Origin
Alam Shah Begum (Halima) Ismail I half Greek - half Turcoman[1] Ardabil, Aq Qoyunlu
Shah-Begi (Tajlu) Tahmasp I Turcoman[2] ?
Sultanum Begum Ismail II and Mohammad Khodabanda Turcoman Qazvin, Safavid Empire
Khayr al-Nisa Begum (Khayr al-Nisa) Abbas I Mazandarani Qazvin, Safavid Empire
Dilaram (Dil Aram) Shah Safi Georgian[3] Kingdom of Kartli, Safavid Empire
Anna Khanum Abbas II Circassian[4] Circassia, or Safavid Empire
Nakihat Khanum (Nakihat) Suleiman I of Persia Circassian[5] ?
Vahshatu Sultan Husayn Circassian Isfahan, Safavid Empire
? Tahmasp II Most likely, Circassian Isfahan, Safavid Empire
Shahpuri Begum Abbas III ? ?

See also

References

  1. Peter Charanis. "Review of Emile Janssens' Trébizonde en Colchide", Speculum, Vol. 45, No. 3,, (Jul., 1970), p. 476
  2. Women in Iran: From the Rise of Islam to 1800 ed. Nashat and Beck (University of Illinois Press, 2003) p.145
  3. Sussan Babaie and others: Slaves of the Shah (I.B. Tauris, 2003) p.104
  4. Andrew J. Newman Safavid Iran (I.B.Tauris) p.81
  5. "Safawi". Retrieved 3 April 2014.


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