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Nakihat Khanum

Nakihat Khanum

First wife of Safavid Shah Abbas II

Nakihat Khanum (Persian: نکهت خانم) was the first consort of the Safavid king (shah) Abbas II (r. 1642–1666).

She was of Circassian origin and came, probably as a victim of the Crimean slave trade, to the Safavid Imperial harem, were she became the concubine to Abbas II of Persia. She became the mother of Abbas II's successor, king Suleiman I (r. 1666–1694).[1][2][3]

Alike other females of the royal court, Nakihat bequeathed property to the Shia shrines in Iraq, which were "formally" under Ottoman control since the Treaty of Zuhab (1639).[4]

References

  1. [1]
    Matthee 2012, p. 56.
  2. [2]
    Newman 2008, pp. 55, 93, 100.
  3. [3]
    Bierbrier 1998, pp. 66, 73.
  4. [4]
    Newman 2008, p. 100.

Sources

  • Bierbrier, Morris (1998). "The Descendants of Theodora Comnena of Trebizond". The Genealogist. 12 (1).
  • Matthee, Rudi (2012). Persia in Crisis: Safavid Decline and the Fall of Isfahan. I.B.Tauris. ISBN 978-1845117450.
  • Matthee, Rudi (2015). "SOLAYMĀN I". Encyclopaedia Iranica.
  • Newman, Andrew J. (2008). Safavid Iran: Rebirth of a Persian Empire. I.B.Tauris. ISBN 978-0857716613.
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