Sultan-Agha Khanum | |
Succession: | Consort of the Safavid Shah |
Consort: | yes |
Spouse: | Tahmasp I |
Issue: | Pari Khan Khanum Suleiman Mirza |
House: | Shamkhal (by birth) Safavid (by marriage) |
Father: | Choban b. Budai |
Religion: | Islam |
Sultan-Agha Khanum (Persian: سلطان آقا خانم|translit=Soltān-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).
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,and her brother, Emamqoli Khan was also in Safavid service.[5]
She married Tahmasp I, and became the mother of princess Pari Khan Khanum and prince Suleiman Mirza (b. 28 March 1554, Nakhchivan).