Sultan-Agha Khanum Explained

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).

Life

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).

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Notes and References

  1. Floor . Willem . 2010 . Who were the Shamkhal and the Usmi? . Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft . 160 . 2 . 341–381 . 10.13173/zeitdeutmorggese.160.2.0341 . 0341-0137.
  2. Book: Manz . Beatrice . Encyclopaedia Iranica . Haneda . Masashi . Čarkas . 4 . 816–819.
  3. Book: Kołodziejczyk, Dariusz . Daghestan during the Long Ottoman-Safavid War (1578–1639): The Shamkhals' Relations with Ottoman Pashas . 2020-08-04 . Brill . 978-90-04-43060-0 . 124–125 . en . 10.1163/9789004430600_007. 234645617 .
  4. Floor . Willem . 2010 . Who were the Shamkhal and the Usmi? . Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft . 160 . 2 . 341–381 . 10.13173/zeitdeutmorggese.160.2.0341 . 0341-0137.
  5. Book: Allen, W. E. D. . Russian Embassies to the Georgian Kings, 1589–1605: Volumes I and II . 2017-07-05 . Taylor & Francis . 978-1-317-06040-6 . 594 . en.