Rabiya-Sultan (tur . Rabia Sultan ; d. January 14, 1712/3 January 1713) - the concubine of the Ottoman sultan Ahmed II (bore the title of Haseki [1] [2] ), mother of sehzade Ibrahim, sehzade Selim and Asiye-sultan. The sons of Rabia were the first twins in the history of the ruling dynasty of the Ottoman Empire .
| Rabia Sultan | |
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| tour. Rabia Sultan | |
| Date of Birth | |
| Date of death | January 14, 1712/3 January 1713 |
| Place of death | Istanbul , Ottoman Empire |
| A country | |
| Occupation | |
| Spouse | Ahmed II |
| Children | sehzade Ibrahim, sehzade Selim, Asiye-Sultan |
Biography
Nothing is known about the origin of Rabia. She came to the harem no later than the beginning of 1692 and became one of two well-known sources of concubines of Sultan Ahmed II , who ascended the throne in 1691. Supposedly Rabia was presented to the sultan of one of his sisters. Since there was no valid sultan under the rule of Ahmed II (mother of the ruler, Hatice Muazzez-sultan , died before he came to power [3] ), Rabiya as the favorite of the sultan [1] , apparently, was the main woman in the harem [4 ] .
In 1692 Rabia gave birth to twins [5] , named Ibrahim and Selim [6] and who became the only sons of Ahmed II [7] . Opinions about the date of this event differ: Anthony Alderson talks about October 7 [6] , and John Frihley about July 10 [3] . This was the first birth of twins in the history of the Ottoman dynasty [3] [8] . Of the two sehzade , only Ibrahim survived his father (Selim died on May 15, 1693 for unknown reasons) [7] . Yılmaz Öztünä calls Rabiyah the mother of Asiye-Sultan [2] , who died on August 24, 1694 [7] [9] . The mother of the rest of the children of Ahmed II, Hatike-Sultan (born October 21, 1694) and Hatice Sultan, was probably the concubine of Shaiest-Khatun [7] .
Ahmed II ascended the throne when he was well past forty, and his reign was short-lived: he died in Edirne on February 6, 1695 [7] ; The cousin of Ahmed II, Mustafa II, was the new sultan. Rabia, together with Shaateste-Khatun and the last daughter, Atik-Sultan, was expelled to the Old Palace by order of the mother of the new Sultan, Emetullah Rabia Gulnush-Sultan . There, in 1710, Saheste-Khatun died, and then, according to various sources, January 14, 1712 [2] or January 3, 1713 [7] , and Rabia herself. She was buried next to her husband in the turkey of Suleiman I , located at the Suleymaniye Mosque [10] .
The son of Rabia, sehzade Ibrahim, after the death of his father, was separated from his mother and transferred to a café , a small pavilion ( koshk ) at the sultan's palace Topkapi , where possible heirs were isolated in isolation [11] . Alderson notes that in 1703, after the abdication of Mustafa II, Ibrahim was considered his probable and preferable successor than Mustafa Ahmed's full brother [12] , but ultimately, the throne was transferred to Ahmed. Ibrahim died in the cafe on May 4, 1714 [7] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Uluçay, 1985 , s. 72.
- ↑ 1 2 3 Öztuna, 2005 , s. 213.
- ↑ 1 2 3 Freely, 2016 , A Cage for Princes.
- ↑ Peirce, 1993 , p. 127.
- ↑ Peirce, 1993 , p. 312 (note 75).
- ↑ 1 2 Alderson, 1956 , pp. 106, 172.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Alderson, 1956 , p. 172.
- ↑ Alderson, 1956 , p. 106
- ↑ Süreyya, 1 Cild, 1996 , s. 6
- ↑ Süreyya, 1 Cild, 1996 , s. 35
- ↑ Novichev, 1963 , p. 100.
- ↑ Alderson, 1956 , p. 172 (note 3).
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