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Sultan-Agha Khanum

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Sultan-Agha Khanum
Portrait of Sultan-Agha Khanum. 17th-century Italian painting based on the engraving of 1596 by Johann Theodor de Bry.
Consort of the Safavid Shah
SpouseTahmasp I
IssuePari Khan Khanum
Suleiman Mirza
HouseShamkhal (by birth)
Safavid (by marriage)
FatherChoban b. Budai
ReligionIslam

Sultan-Agha Khanum (Persian: سلطان آقا خانم, romanizedSoltān-Āqā Xānum) also in Western sources Corasi was a Safavid queen consort of Kumyk origin, as the second wife of Safavid king Tahmasp I (r. 1524–1576).

Life

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She was Kumyk[1] origin. Although she is often referred as of Circassian heritage; though, in Persian, the word Cherkes (چرکس, 'Circassian') is sometimes applied generally to Caucasian peoples living beyond Derbent in Dagestan.[2] Her father was Choban b. Budai (d. 1574), Shamkhal of Tarki.[3][4]

She was the sister of the Safavid-Kumyk noble Shamkhal Sultan, future shamkhals Eldar, Mohammad, Andi and Girai,[4] and her brother, Emamqoli Khan was also in Safavid service.[5]

She married Tahmasp I c. 1547, and became the mother of princess Pari Khan Khanum and prince Suleiman Mirza (b. 28 March 1554, Nakhchivan).[6][7][8]

References

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  1. ^ Floor, Willem (2010). "Who were the Shamkhal and the Usmi?". Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft. 160 (2): 341–381. ISSN 0341-0137. JSTOR 10.13173/zeitdeutmorggese.160.2.0341.
  2. ^ Manz, Beatrice; Haneda, Masashi. Encyclopaedia Iranica. Vol. 4. pp. 816–819. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  3. ^ Kołodziejczyk, Dariusz (2020-08-04). Daghestan during the Long Ottoman-Safavid War (1578–1639): The Shamkhals' Relations with Ottoman Pashas. Brill. pp. 124–125. doi:10.1163/9789004430600_007. ISBN 978-90-04-43060-0. S2CID 234645617.
  4. ^ a b Floor, Willem (2010). "Who were the Shamkhal and the Usmi?". Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft. 160 (2): 341–381. ISSN 0341-0137. JSTOR 10.13173/zeitdeutmorggese.160.2.0341.
  5. ^ Allen, W. E. D. (2017-07-05). Russian Embassies to the Georgian Kings, 1589–1605: Volumes I and II. Taylor & Francis. p. 594. ISBN 978-1-317-06040-6.
  6. ^ Parsadust 2009.
  7. ^ Nashat & Beck 2003, p. 147.
  8. ^ Bierbrier 1997, pp. 235, 239–240.

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