Jamal Nur Qadin

Jamal Nur Qadin (Turkish: Cemalnur Kadın; Arabic: جمال نور قادین‎; died c. 1876) was a slave consort to Khedive Isma'il Pasha of Egypt.

Jamal Nur was born in North Caucasus in 1850. She was captured in one of the raids and was sold into slavery. She joined the harem of Ismail Pasha and then she married him sometime later. She is described as being pretty, but having short legs. She was described as frivolous, always laughing and joking, and when she walked in the garden with everyone, she could never resist in taking off her shoes and stockings to paddle in the basins of the fountains. She even lifted up her skirts so high that one could see the frills of her pantalettes. She was the one who gave a slightest twinge to Neshedil Qadin, another consort of Isma'il Pasha.[1]

Jamal Nur died in childbirth[2] at Cairo, in 1876, and was buried there at the Khedival Mausoleum, Al-Rifa'i Mosque.[3]

Her son, Prince Ali Jamal Pasha[4][5][6] was then bought up and cared for by Isma'il's first wife, Shehret Feza Hanim, for whom he never felt more than mildly affectionate gratitude.[2] He, however, felt motherly love for Neshedil Qadin, who had lost her own son.[2] He went to school at Theresianum, Vienna, where he died from diphtheria, at the age of seventeen.[2]