Refia Sultan (daughter of Abdul Hamid II)

Refia Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: رفیعه سلطان‎; 15 June 1891 – c. 1938) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Sultan Abdul Hamid II and Sazkar Hanım.

Refia Sultan
Born(1891-06-15)15 June 1891
Yıldız Palace, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(now Istanbul, Turkey)
Diedc. 1938 (aged 46–47)
Beirut, Lebanon
Burial
Sultan Selim Mosque, Damascus, Syria
SpouseAli Fuad Bey
Issue
  • Rabia Hanımsultan
  • Ayşe Hamide Hanımsultan
DynastyOttoman
FatherAbdul Hamid II
MotherSazkar Hanım
ReligionSunni Islam

Early life

Refia Sultan was born on 15 June 1891 in the Yıldız Palace. Her father was Sultan Abdul Hamid II, and her mother was Sazkar Hanım.[1][2][3][4] She was the eleventh child, and sixth daughter born to her father and the only child of her mother.[5]

Marriage

Towards the end of Abdul Hamid's reign, he bethrothed Refia Sultan to Ali Fuad Bey, the son of Müşir Ahmed Eyüp Pasha. However, at the overthrew of her father in 1909, the princess followed her parents into exile at Thessaloniki. The next year she returned to Istanbul.[3]

The marriage took place on 3 September 1910 in the Kızıltoprak Palace. The couple had two daughters, Rebia Hanımsultan born on 13 July 1911, and Ayşe Hamide Hanımsultan born in 1918.[6]

At the exile of the imperial family in March 1924, the couple and their daughters settled firstly in Nice, France where Hamide died at the age of eighteen in 1934, later the couple settled in Beirut, Lebanon.[3][4]

According to Neslişah Sultan, she was by far the worldliest among the daughters of Sultan Abdul Hamid II. She was a gracious lady, and her husband Fuad Bey was an excellent husband.[7]

Death

Refia Sultan died at the age of forty seven in 1938 in Beirut, Lebanon and was buried in Sultan Selim Mosque, Damascus, Syria.[6][1][3][2] Her mother outlived her by seven years dying in 1945.[8]

Honours

Issue

Together with Ali Faud, Refia had two daughters:

  • Rebia Hanımsultan (Kiziltoprak Palace, 13 July 1911 – 19 June 1988, buried in Mahmud II Mausoleum), unmarried and without issue;
  • Ayşe Hamide Hanımsultan (Kiziltoprak Palace, c. 1918 – c. 1934 in Nice, France, buried in Damascus, Sultan Selim Mosque, Syria)

Ancestry

References
  1. Uluçay 2011, p. 258.
  2. Brookes 2010, p. 288.
  3. Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 697.
  4. Ekinci, Ekrem Buğra (June 2017). Sultan Abdülhamid'in Son Zevcesi. ISBN 9786050825039. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
  5. Uluçay 2011, p. 250, 258.
  6. Adra, Jamil (2005). Genealogy of the Imperial Ottoman Family 2005. pp. 28.
  7. Bardakçı, Murat (2017). Neslishah: The Last Ottoman Princess. Oxford University Press. p. 100. ISBN 978-9-774-16837-6.
  8. Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 683-4.
  9. Yılmaz Öztuna (1978). Başlangıcından zamanımıza kadar büyük Türkiye tarihi: Türkiye'nin siyasî, medenî, kültür, teşkilât ve san'at tarihi. Ötüken Yayınevi. p. 165.

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.
  • Sakaoğlu, Necdet (2008). Bu mülkün kadın sultanları: Vâlide sultanlar, hâtunlar, hasekiler, kadınefendiler, sultanefendiler. Oğlak Yayıncılık. ISBN 978-9-753-29623-6.
  • Uluçay, Mustafa Çağatay (2011). Padişahların kadınları ve kızları. Ankara, Ötüken.
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