Saliha Sultan (daughter of Mahmud II)

Saliha Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: صالحه سلطان‎; 16 June 1811 – 6 February 1843) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Sultan Mahmud II and Aşubcan Kadın. She was the half-sister of Sultans Abdulmejid I and Abdulaziz.

Saliha Sultan
Born16 June 1811
Topkapı Palace, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(now Istanbul, Turkey)
Died6 February 1843(1843-02-06) (aged 31)
Fındıklı Palace, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Burial
Sultan Mahmud II Mausoleum, Divanyolu, Istanbul
Spouse
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(m. 1834)​
Issue
  • Sultanzade Abdul Hamid Bey
  • Ayşe Sıdıka Hanımsultan
DynastyOttoman
FatherMahmud II
MotherAşubcan Kadın
ReligionSunni Islam

Early life

Saliha Sultan was born 16 June 1811 in the Topkapı Palace. Her father was Sultan Mahmud II, and her mother was Aşubcan Kadın.[1][2] She was the granddaughter of Abdul Hamid I and Nakşidil Sultan.[3]

Marriage

In 1834, when Saliha was twenty three years old, her father arranged her marriage to Damat Gürcü Halil Rifat Pasha. The marriage took place on Saturday, 24 May 1834 in the Beşiktaş Waterfront Palace. The bridal procession of Saliha Sultan left this palace on Thursday, conveying the bride to Fındıklı Palace.[1] The ladies of the marriage procession rode in carriages and coaches decorated with stars.[4]

Julia Pardoe, who observed the marriage from a caique on the Bosphorus noted the illumination of the waterfront palace of Esma Sultan. She writes that, "there must have been many hundred caiques wedged together in front of her terrace, and less than fifty of them contained musicians."[5] The wedding ceremony was covered in the first official Ottoman newspaper Takvim-i Vekayi.[6]

The couple owned the Neşatabad Palace located in Ortaköy Defterdarburnu and the Fındıklı Palace.[7] The two together had a son, Sultanzade Abdul Hamid Bey, born on 22 March 1835, and who died young in 1837,[8][9][10] and a daughter, Ayşe Sıdıka Hanımsultan, who married Server Pasha.[11]

Death

Saliha Sultan died on 6 February 1843 at the age of thirty one in the Fındıklı Palace, and was buried in the mausoleum of her father in Divanyolu, Istanbul.[12][13]

After her death, Halil married Ismet Hanım.[14] The two together had one son, Damat Mahmud Celaleddin Pasha, who married her niece Seniha Sultan, daughter of her half-brother, Sultan Abdulmejid I.[15]

Issue

Together with Damat Gürcü Halil Rifat, Saliha had two children:

  • Sultanzade Abdul Hamid Bey (22 March 1835 - c. 1837);
  • Ayşe Sıdıka Hanımsultan, married to Server Pasha;
  • In 2018 Turkish historical fiction TV series Kalbimin Sultanı, Saliha is portrayed by Turkish actress Aslihan Malbora.[16]

See also

Ancestry

References
  1. Uluçay 2011, p. 190.
  2. Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 551.
  3. Adra, Jamil (2005). Genealogy of the Imperial Ottoman Family 2005. pp. 4.
  4. Davis 1986, p. 135.
  5. Davis 1986, p. 146.
  6. Ottoman Women in Public Space. BRILL. May 9, 2016. p. 240. ISBN 978-9-004-31662-1.
  7. Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 553.
  8. Lutfî, Ahmet (1999). Vak'anüvı̂s Ahmed Lûtfı̂ Efendi tarihi, Volumes 4-5. Türkiye Ekonomik ve Toplumsal Tarih Vakfı. p. 827. ISBN 978-9-750-80074-0.
  9. Aynur, Hatice (1995). Saliha Sultan'ın düğününü anlatan surnâmeler, 1834: Kısım. İnceleme ve tenkitli metin. Harvard University, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. p. 8.
  10. Haskan, Mehmet Nermi (2008). Eyüp Sultan tarihi, Volume 2. Eyüp Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları. p. 463. ISBN 978-9-756-08704-6.
  11. Ekinci, Ekrem Buğra (2018-12-14). "SULTAN HAMİD'İN HAYIRSIZ AKRABALARI MAHMUD PAŞA VE PRENS SABAHADDİN". ekrembugraekinci.com (in Turkish). Retrieved 2021-01-14.
  12. Uluçay 2011, p. 191.
  13. Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 554.
  14. Malatyalı, Ahmet; Çalışan, Irfan (2005). Tarihi, kültürü ve sanatıyla Eyüpsultan Sempozyumu IX: tebliğler. Eyüp Belediyesi Kültür ve Turizm Müdürlüğü. ISBN 978-9-756-08702-2.
  15. Taglia, Stefano (April 4, 2015). Intellectuals and Reform in the Ottoman Empire: The Young Turks on the Challenges of Modernity. Routledge. p. 80. ISBN 978-1-317-57863-5.
  16. Kabimin Sultanı (TV Series 2018), retrieved 2020-04-05

Sources
  • Davis, Fanny (1986). The Ottoman Lady: A Social History from 1718 to 1918. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-24811-5.
  • 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. ISBN 978-9-754-37840-5.
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