Şehzade Mehmed Abid

Şehzade Mehmed Abid (Ottoman Turkish: شهزادہ محمد عابد‎; 17 September 1905 – 8 December 1973) was an Ottoman prince, the son of Sultan Abdul Hamid II and Saliha Naciye Hanım.

Şehzade Mehmed Abid
Born17 September 1905
Yıldız Palace, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (present day Istanbul, Turkey)
Died8 December 1973(1973-12-08) (aged 68)
Beirut, Lebanon
Burial
Tekkiye Mosque, Damascus, Syria
Spouse
    Pınarıdil Fahriye Hanım
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    (died 1934)​
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      (m. 1936; div. 1949)​
      Full name
      Turkish: Şehzade Mehmed Abid
      Ottoman Turkish: شہزادہ محمد عابد‎
      DynastyOttoman
      FatherAbdul Hamid II
      MotherSaliha Naciye Hanım
      ReligionSunni Islam

      Early years

      Şehzade Mehmed Abid was born on 17 September 1905 in the Yıldız Palace. He was the son of Sultan Abdul Hamid II, and his wife Saliha Naciye Hanım,[1][2] daughter of Arslan Bey Ankuap and Canhız Hanım.[3] He was the eighth son, and sixteenth child born to his father, and the eldest child of his mother. He had a sister, Samiye Sultan three years younger then him, who died in infancy. He was the grandson of Sultan Abdulmejid I and Tirimüjgan Kadın. He was named after Abdul Hamid's decreased brother.[1]

      On 27 April 1909, Abdul Hamid was deposed, and sent into exile in Thessaloniki.[4] Abid and his mother followed Abdul Hamid. There they lived in Alatini Mansion.[2] After Thessaloniki fell to Greece in 1912, Abdul Hamid returned to Istanbul, and settled in the Beylerbeyi Palace.[5] His circumcision took place on 9 October 1913.[2] Abdul Hamid died in 1918, when Abid was thirteen years of age.[6]

      Abid's early education took place in Galatasaray High School. He was thought painting by Halil Pasha, and his history tutor was Tevfik Bey. After graduating from here, he was enrolled in the Ottoman Military College,[7] and went on to become senior lieutenant in the imperial Ottoman Army. He also served aide-de-camp to Sultan Mehmed VI.[2] His mother died in 1923, when he was nineteen years of age.[6]

      Between 1918 and 1922, Abid lived in the Yıldız Palace, and between 1922 and 1924, he lived in the Erenköy Palace.[2]

      Exile

      At the exile if the imperial family in March 1924, Abid settled in Beirut, Lebanon. He used to spend most of the time in Jounieh with his eldest brother Şehzade Mehmed Selim, and the summers in Aley. He then went to Paris, where he stayed with his older sister, Ayşe Sultan.[2] Here he earned his living as a soap seller.[6]

      In Paris, he went to the Sorbonne Law School, and the Faculty of Political Sciences from where he graduated in 1936 and 1937 respected. He received his doctorate in law from Sorbonne. He also went to Ecole Nationale des Langues Oriantales Vivantes, where he graduated in Persian Language and Literature. Between 1940 and 1948, he lived for short periods in Toulouse, Nice, Madrid, Lisbon, Cairo, Alexandria and Tirana.[2][6]

      Betweent 1936 and 1939,[2][6] King Zog I of Albania, appointed him the Albanian Ambassador to France.[8]

      Personal life

      In 1930,[2] Abid asked Abdulmejid II and Mehisti Hanım's daughter, Dürrüşehvar Sultan's hand in marriage. However, her father refused, on the grounds of Dürrüşehvar being under age.[6] In 1934, his marriage was arranged to Mihrişah Sultan, daughter of Şehzade Yusuf Izzeddin and Leman Hanım, and then to the daughter of Nizam of Hyderabad State. However, none of them materialised.[2]

      Abid's first wife was Pınardil Fahriye Hanım. She died in 1934 in Nice, France, and was buried in Muslim Bobigny Cemetery.[9] His second wife was Princess Senije Zogu, daughter of Xhemal Pasha Zogu and Sadije Toptani, and sister of King Zog I. They married in Tirana in 1936, and divorced in 1949.[6]

      Character

      Abid was very smart, cultured and interested in history. In his last days he used to spend his time in libraries and bookstores. He could speak Turkish and French, and knew Arabic and Persian  He received many offers to write down his memories about his father. However, he turned down those offers. He would generally refuse the journalists requests to meet him. He was handsome, and would dress comely and cleanly. He spoke very little and was too modest.[6]

      Death

      In 1966, Mehmed Abid settled in Beirut, where he died of heart attack on 8 December 1973 and was buried at Tekkiye Mosque, Damascus, Syria.[2][1][6]

      Honours
      Ottoman honours
      Foreign honours

      In literature
      • Şehzade Mehmed Abid is a character in Tim Symonds' historical novel Sherlock Holmes and The Sword of Osman (2015).[11]

      Ancestry

      References
      1. Adra, Jamil (2005). Genealogy of the Imperial Ottoman Family 2005. p. 29.
      2. Yılmaz Öztuna (2008). II. Abdülhamîd: zamânı ve şahsiyeti. Kubbealti Publishing. pp. 238–39. ISBN 978-97564-446-27.
      3. Açba, Harun (2007). Kadın efendiler: 1839-1924. Profil. p. 124. ISBN 978-9-759-96109-1.
      4. Hall, Richard C. (October 9, 2014). War in the Balkans: An Encyclopedic History from the Fall of the Ottoman Empire to the Breakup of Yugoslavia. ABC-CLIO. pp. 1–2. ISBN 978-1-610-69031-7.
      5. Parry, Milman; Lord, Albert B. (1979). Serbocroation heroic songs, Volume 1. Harvard University Press. p. 371.
      6. "Saraydan Seyyar Satıcılîğa: Şehzâde Âbid Efendi". www.erkembugraekinci.com. 19 June 2013. Retrieved 4 November 2020.
      7. Monarchies and the Great War. Springer. 2018. p. 144. ISBN 978-3-319-89515-4.
      8. Robert Elsie (December 24, 2012). A Biographical Dictionary of Albanian History. I.B.Tauris. p. 506. ISBN 978-17807-643-13.
      9. "Fransa'daki Şehzade Kabirlerinin Durumu İçler Acısı". haberler.com. 2014-02-25. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
      10. Albanian Royal Court
      11. Symonds, Tim (October 14, 2015). Sherlock Holmes and The Sword of Osman. Andrews UK Limited. ISBN 978-1-780-92756-5.
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