Behiye Sultan

Hafız Hakkı Pasha
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(m. 1910; died 1915)​
HouseOttomanFatherŞehzade Mehmed SelaheddinMotherNaziknaz HanımReligionSunni Islam

Behiye Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: بهیه سلطان, "beautiful"; 29 September 1881 – 5 March 1948) was the eldest survived daughter of Şehzade Mehmed Selaheddin (1861–1915),[1] who was the son of Ottoman Sultan Murad V (reigned 1876). Her mother was Naziknaz Hanım.[2]

Early years

Behiye Sultan was born on was born on 29 September 1881 in the Çırağan Palace.[3] Her father was Şehzade Mehmed Selaheddin, son of Murad V and Reftarıdil Kadın and her mother was Naziknaz Hanım. She had a brother, Şehzade Ahmed Nihad, two years younger than her, and a younger sister, Behice Sultan, stillbirth.[4]

Behiye married Hafız Hakkı Pasha (1878-1915),[5] a general in the imperial Ottoman army, in a double wedding with her sister Rukiye Sultan.[6] The marriage contract was concluded at the Ortaköy Palace on 17 February 1910.[7] The wedding took place on 12 January 1911[8][9] at the Vasıf Pasha Palace, and the couple was given one of the palaces of Ortaköy as their residence.[9] She remained childless. She did not remarry after her husband's death in 1915.[1]

Exile

At the exile of imperial family in March 1924, she settled in Cairo. She lived in a tiny villa on Road 13. Her neighbors, the Wahid Raafat family, never saw anyone visit her. No one noticed when she moved out. All of a sudden she was replaced in the small house by astronomer Professor Khayri, director of the Helwan observatory. Sharing the same boisterous gardener 'Am Ibrahim,' the Raafats would send the princess home-baked kahk during Eid al-Fitr. A few years later, by mere coincidence Dr. Wahid Raafat found himself wrongly implicated in an alleged royalist plot concocted by members of the princess's extended family. He was subsequently imprisoned, without trial, for several weeks.[10]

Death

She died on 5 March 1948[11] in her home in Maadi, Cairo, Egypt,[1][12] and was buried in the mausoleum of Abdul Halim Pasha.[13]

Honours

In literature

  • Behiye Sultan is a character in Ayşe Osmanoğlu's historical novel The Gilded Cage on the Bosphorus (2020).[16]

Ancestry

Ancestors of Behiye Sultan
8. Abdulmejid I
4. Murad V
9. Şevkefza Sultan
2. Şehzade Mehmed Selaheddin
5. Reftarıdil Kadın
1. Behiye Sultan
3. Naziknaz Hanım

References

  1. ^ a b c "Hafiz Hakki Pasha". Hyperleap. Retrieved 9 March 2019.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher: Voices from the Ottoman Harem. University of Texas Press. 2010. p. 279. ISBN 978-0-292-78335-5.
  3. ^ Brookes 2010, p. 100, 279.
  4. ^ Adra, Jamil (2005). Genealogy of the Imperial Ottoman Family 2005. p. 20.
  5. ^ Reşad, Ekrem; Osman, Ferid (1911). "Musavver nevsâl-i Osmanî". Marmara University: 63. hdl:11424/48517.
  6. ^ Brookes, Douglas S. (February 4, 2020). On the Sultan's Service: Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil's Memoir of the Ottoman Palace, 1909–1912. Indiana University Press. pp. 83 n. 5. ISBN 978-0-253-04553-9.
  7. ^ Vâsıb & Osmanoğlu 2004, p. 53.
  8. ^ Ekinci, Ekrem Buğra (2019-07-01). "SARAY'A DAMAT OLMAK…". ekrembugraekinci.com (in Turkish). Retrieved 2021-01-12.
  9. ^ a b Vâsıb & Osmanoğlu 2004, p. 38.
  10. ^ "MAADI'S OTTOMANS". egy.com. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
  11. ^ Brookes 2010, p. 279.
  12. ^ "Hanedan nerede öldü nereye gömüldü?". Türkiye Gazetesi (in Turkish). 18 December 2014. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
  13. ^ PAZAN, İbrahim (2014-12-18). "HANEDAN NEREDE ÖLDÜ NEREYE GÖMÜLDÜ?". ibrahimpazan.com (in Turkish). Retrieved 2021-01-12.
  14. ^ a b Yılmaz Öztuna (1978). Başlangıcından zamanımıza kadar büyük Türkiye tarihi: Türkiye'nin siyasî, medenî, kültür, teşkilât ve san'at tarihi. Ötüken Yayınevi. p. 165.
  15. ^ Salnâme-i Devlet-i Âliyye-i Osmanîyye, 1333-1334 Sene-i Maliye, 68. Sene. Hilal Matbaası. 1918. pp. 72–73.
  16. ^ "May I Introduce Sultan Murad V's granddaughters", ayseosmanoglu.com, 3 April 2020, retrieved 5 November 2020

Sources

  • Brookes, Douglas Scott (2010). The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher: Voices from the Ottoman Harem. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-78335-5.
  • Vâsıb, Ali; Osmanoğlu, Osman Selaheddin (2004). Bir şehzadenin hâtırâtı: vatan ve menfâda gördüklerim ve işittiklerim. YKY. ISBN 978-9-750-80878-4.
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