Zeynab Ilhamy

Mahmud Hamdi Pasha

(m. 1878)

IssueMunira HamdiHouseMuhammad AliFatherIbrahim Ilhami PashaMotherJeshmi Ahu QadinReligionSunni Islam

Zeynab Ilhamy (Arabic: زينب إلهامي; Turkish: Zeynep Ilhami; 29 December 1859 – 17 May 1918) was an Egyptian princess and a member of the Muhammad Ali Dynasty and Ottoman dynasty.

Life

Princess Zeynab Ilhamy was born on 29 December 1859 in Istanbul. She was the second daughter of Lieutenant General Prince Ibrahim Ilhami Pasha.^[1] and Jeshmi Ahu Qadin (died 1905).^[2] She was the granddaughter of Khedive Abbas I and Mahivech Hanim.^[3] She had two sisters,^[4] Princess Emina Ilhamy^[3] and Princess Tevhide Ilhamy.^[5]

In 1878, Zeynab married her father's cousin Prince Mahmud Hamdi Pasha fifth son of Isma'il Pasha and Jahan Shah Qadin.^[3]^[6]^[7] The couple had one daughter, who was named Princess Munira Hamdi, born in 1884. The two divorced in 1888.^[2]

Death

Zeynab died at Cairo on 17 May 1918, and was buried Hosh al-Basha, Imam al-Shafi'i, Cairo.

Issue

Zeynab and Mahmud Hamdi had one daughter:

Princess Munira Hamdi (18 July 1884, Cairo — 18 November 1944 - Cairo), married Mohamed Tawfik Naseem Pasha;

Ancestry

Ancestors of Zeynab Ilhamy

16. Muhammad Ali of Egypt

8. Tusun Pasha

17. Amina Hanim

4. Abbas I of Egypt

9. Bamba Qadin

2. Ibrahim Ilhamy Pasha

5. Mahivech Hanim

1. Zeynab Ilhamy

3. Jeshmi Ahu Qadin

References

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^ ^a ^b Catalogue of the Abbas Hilmi II Papers. Durham University Library. 2020. p. 333.
^ ^a ^b ^c Doumani, Beshara (February 1, 2012). Family History in the Middle East: Household, Property, and Gender. SUNY Press. pp. 261, 270. ISBN 978-0-791-48707-5.
^ Malortie, Karl Von (1882). Egypt: Native Rulers and Foreign Interference. W. Ridgway. pp. 300–301.
^ İstanbul su külliyâtı: Vakıf su defterleri: Bogazici ve Taksim sulari 2 (1813-1928). 1997. p. 83. ISBN 978-9-758-21504-1.
^ Cuno, Kenneth M. (April 1, 2015). Modernizing Marriage: Family, Ideology, and Law in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Egypt. Syracuse University Press. p. 37. ISBN 978-0-815-65316-5.
^ Tugay, Emine Foat (1963). Three Centuries: Family Chronicles of Turkey and Egypt. Oxford University Press. p. 100.