| Ismah Khatun اسماعه خاتون | |||||||||
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| Wife of the Abbasid caliph | |||||||||
| Tenure | 1109 – 1118 | ||||||||
| Born | Isfahan | ||||||||
| Died | after 1119 Isfahan | ||||||||
| Burial | Barracks Market of Isfahan | ||||||||
| Spouse | Al-Mustazhir | ||||||||
| Children | Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Ahmad al-Mustazhir | ||||||||
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| Dynasty | Seljuk | ||||||||
| Father | Malik Shah | ||||||||
| Religion | Sunni Islam | ||||||||
Ismah Khatun (Persian: اسماعه خاتون) (Arabic: عصمة خاتون) was a Seljuk princess, daughter of sultan Malik Shah (r. 1072–1092) and principal wife of Abbasid caliph al-Mustazhir (r. 1094–1118).
Background
[edit]Ismah Khatun was one of the youngest daughters of Seljuk sultan Malik Shah. She was very young when her father died in 1092; he was succeeded by his underage son Mahmud I under the regency of Terken Khatun, who was the regent during his minority in 1092–1094.[1]
Later, her other brothers, Berkyaruq, Malik-Shah II and Muhammad Tapar also became Sultans.
Biography
[edit]She was one of Al-Mustazhir's wives. She was the daughter of Seljuk Sultan Malik-Shah I. Al-Mustazhir married her in Isfahan in 1109.[2] She later came to Baghdad and took up residence in the Caliphal palace. On 3 February 1112, she gave birth to prince Abu Ishaq Ibrahim, who died of smallpox in October 1114, and was buried in the mausoleum of al-Muqtadir in Rusafah Cemetery, beside his uncle-cousin Ja'far, son of the caliph al-Muqtadi (father of Mustazhir) and Mah-i Mulk Khatun (half-sister of Ismah). Upon the death of Al-Mustazhir, Ismah returned to Isfahan, where she died, and was buried within the law college that she had founded there on Barracks Market Street.[3]
Her husband died in 1118. In the same year her half-brother sultan Muhammad Tapar also died.
After the death of her husband, he was succeeded by al-Mustarshid. He was Al-Mustazhir's son from a concubine Lubanah. She was from Baghdad.[4]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Mernissi, Fatima; Mary Jo Lakeland (2003). The forgotten queens of Islam. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-579868-5.
- ^ Lambton 1988, p. 268.
- ^ al-Sāʿī, Ibn; Toorawa, Shawkat M.; Bray, Julia (2017). كتاب جهات الأئمة الخلفاء من الحرائر والإماء المسمى نساء الخلفاء: Women and the Court of Baghdad. Library of Arabic Literature. NYU Press. pp. 62, 65. ISBN 978-1-4798-6679-3.
- ^ الدكتور, عبد القادر بوباية ،الأستاذ (2009). الاكتفاء في اخبار الخلفاء 1-2 ج2. الاكتفاء في اخبار الخلفاء 1-2. Dar Al Kotob Al Ilmiyah دار الكتب العلمية. pp. 487, 492.
Sources
[edit]- Lambton, A.K.S. (1988). Continuity and Change in Medieval Persia. Bibliotheca Persica. Bibliotheca Persica. ISBN 978-0-88706-133-2.
- al-Sāʿī, Ibn; Toorawa, Shawkat M.; Bray, Julia (2017). Women and the Court of Baghdad. Library of Arabic Literature. NYU Press. pp. 62, 65