| Arife Kadriye Sultan | |
| Birth Date: | 24 March 1895 |
| Birth Place: | Yıldız Palace, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (now Istanbul, Turkey) |
| Death Place: | Nice, France |
| House: | Ottoman |
| Full Name: | Turkish: Arife Kadriye Sultan|italic=no Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928);: عارفه قادریه سلطان |
| Father: | Şehzade Ibrahim Tevfik |
| Mother: | Fevziye Hanım |
| Religion: | Sunni Islam |
Arife Kadriye Sultan (Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928);: عارفه قادریه سلطان; "wise, smart" and "valuable, strong"; 24 March 1895 – 5 April 1933) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Şehzade Ibrahim Tevfik and Fevziye Hanım.
Arife Kadriye Sultan was born on 24 March 1895 in the Yıldız Palace.[1] [2] Her father was Şehzade Ibrahim Tevfik, son of Şehzade Mehmed Burhaneddin and Mestinaz Hanım, and grandson of Ottoman Sultan Abdülmejid I,[3] and her mother was Fevziye Hanım, an Abkhazian. She was the oldest child of her father and the only child of her mother. Her mother died when she was three years old.[1]
Arife married Fenarizade Mehmed Raşid on 13 December 1914 in the Nişantaşı Palace. On 6 February 1923, she gave birth to Melike Hanımsultan in Istanbul, who was followed by Emire Hanımsultan born on 7 December 1927 in Nice, France.[1]
At the exile of the imperial family in 1924, Kadriye Sultan was sick, and so was allowed to remain in the capital until she recovered. Hatice Sultan, the daughter of Sultan Murad V also shared a mansion with her, which was used a primary school.[4] Following her recovery, she and her husband and daughters were exiled to Austria, and then to Nice, France. Arife was a pianist,[5] and during the exile, she played piano to make money for her family.[5] She also composed various compositions for the piano.[6] Her husband also used to sell matches on the streets.[4] Arife befriended a Swiss lady, Rosa Keller, who was in France to study, and the two remained closed until her death.[4]
Arife Kadriye died of tuberculosis on 5 April 1933 at the age of thirty-eight in Nice and was buried there.[1] [2] [7] Before her death, Arife requested Rosa that after her death she would marry her husband, so her children won't be deprived of a mother's love. Respecting her last wish, Rosa married Mehmed Raşid. The family then settled in Switzerland.[4]
By her marriage, Arife Kadriye had two daughters:[1]