To install click the Add extension button. That's it.

The source code for the WIKI 2 extension is being checked by specialists of the Mozilla Foundation, Google, and Apple. You could also do it yourself at any point in time.

4,5
Kelly Slayton
Congratulations on this excellent venture… what a great idea!
Alexander Grigorievskiy
I use WIKI 2 every day and almost forgot how the original Wikipedia looks like.
Live Statistics
English Articles
Improved in 24 Hours
Added in 24 Hours
What we do. Every page goes through several hundred of perfecting techniques; in live mode. Quite the same Wikipedia. Just better.
.
Leo
Newton
Brights
Milds

Rahime Perestu Sultan

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Rahime Perestu Sultan
Tomb of Rahîme Perestû Sultan in Mihrişah Sultan Mausoleum, Eyüp, Istanbul
Valide Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
Tenure31 August 1876 – c. 1906
BornRahime Hanim
c. 1830
Circassia
Diedc. 1906(1906-00-00) (aged 75–76)
Maçka Palace, Maçka, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Burial
Spouse
(m. 1844; died 1861)
IssueAdopted
Cemile Sultan
Abdülhamid II
Names
Turkish: Rahime Perestu Sultan
Ottoman Turkish: پرستو قادین
MotherEsma Sultan (adoptive)
ReligionSunni Islam

Rahime Perestu Sultan[1] (Ottoman Turkish: پرستو قادین, "mercy" and "swallow"; c. 1830 – c. 1906), also known as Rahime Perestu Kadın, was the first legal wife of Sultan Abdulmejid I of the Ottoman Empire. She was given the title and position of Valide sultan (Queen mother) when Abdul Hamid II, her adopted son, ascended the throne in 1876 making her the last valide sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

YouTube Encyclopedic

  • 1/5
    Views:
    484
    1 369
    1 368
    426
    313
  • Who Is Who Is Rahime Perestu Sultan?
  • Rahime Perestu Sultan History with English Subtitles
  • 1.Abdulmecidin Eşi Râhime Piristû Vâlide Sultan #osmanlı #200subs
  • Who Is Esma Sultan (daughter of Abdul Hamid I)?
  • Who Is Tirimüjgan Sultan?

Transcription

Early life

Of Circassian origin, Perestu was born in around 1830[2][3] in an Ubykh noble family.[4] She had one sister, Mihrifidan Hanım (died 1865),[5] who was the wife of Fazıl Bey, son of Yusuf Pasha.[6]

Esma Sultan, the daughter of Sultan Abdul Hamid I lived in luxury in her magnificent villa in Istanbul, but still her life passed in sadness because she could not have the one thing she wished for most; a child. At length she decided to adopt a child. After reaching satisfactory terms with the mother and father, she adopted the child, one year of age. As Esma's daughter, she had an adoptive sister, Nazif Hanim, adopted by Esma too.[7][5]

She was particularly diminutive, delicate and graceful, so she renamed her Perestu, the Persian word for swallow.[5] All the kalfas in Esma Sultan's villa behaved toward this child as though she were a daughter of an Ottoman imperial princess, and indeed her disposition and manners were so lovely that they became devoted to her. Perestu was descrived as beautiful woman, possessing a petite and slender figure with translucent white skin, blue eyes, golden blonde hair, and truly lovely hands and feet. She had elegant and refined manners, was kindly, dignified and always spoke in a low voice, and had everyone's affection and respect.[7]

Marriage

One spring day in 1844, Abdulmejid came to visit his aunt and was passing through the harem gardens when he saw Perestu, then fourteen years old. The chronicles say that he was so impressed with her that her aunt asked him if she was okay.

He asked his aunt to give her hand in marriage to him. Firstly, Esma Sultan refused to give Perestu's hand in marriage but later consented, provided that Perestu became his legal wife and not a consort in concubinage. One week after that, Perestu was sent off to the Topkapı Palace and became Abdulmejid's first legal wife.[8]

She was given the title of "Senior Ikbal".[9] In 1845, she was elevated to "Sixth Kadın", in 1851, to "Fifth Kadın", and in 1861, to "Fourth Kadın".[4]

Perestu had no children of her own. In 1845, Cemile Sultan's mother Düzdidil Hanım died leaving her motherless aged two. Abdulmejid took her to Perestu, and entrusted her into her care.[10] She also became the adoptive mother of Abdul Hamid II after the death of his own mother, Tirimüjgan Kadın in 1852. Thus, the two siblings grew up together in the same household and spent their childhoods with one another.[11]

After Abdulmejid's death in 1861, she settled in her villa in Maçka, Nişantaşı, which had been a gift presented to her by Sultan Abdulaziz.[12]

Children

Perestu had no biological children, but she adopted two of the Abdulmejid's children, a daughter and a son, who was birth by others consorts when they lost their mothers:

As Valide Sultan

After Abdul Hamid II ascended the throne in 1876, she was given the position of Valide Sultan, title due to the mother of the sultan, by him, and headed the harem. Perestu was the first woman to have this title without being the sultan's biological mother, and the last woman in history to bear it, since both Mehmed V and Mehmed VI, the last two Ottoman sultans, were orphans on their ascent to the throne. Abdul Hamid told her categorically not to involve herself in politics.[13] Thus, unlike many of her predecessors, she was not active in politics, because, although he valued his adoptive mother, he believed that the excessive interference of the previous Valide Sultans in politics had damaged the Empire.[14]

In 1879 she interceded with Abdulhamid on behalf of his half-sister Mediha Sultan and her adoptive mother Verdicenan Kadin. Princess Mediha wanted to marry the man she was in love with instead of accepting an arranged marriage, and she sought the help of the Valide Sultan in presenting her request to the sultan. Abdulhamid accepted the request.

Three days before Abdul Hamid became Sultan, he went to Perestu's villa and kissed her hand, acknowledging her as his Valide Sultan, and it was from there that he proceeded to Topkapı Palace for the ceremony of homage at his accession. Perestu loved this house. Now and again she would want to go there, but because Abdul Hamid absolutely wanted her present in the palace he would withhold permission.[15]

In 1885, during the visit of King Oscar II and Queen Sophia of Sweden to the Ottoman Empire, she received the Swedish queen, who was allowed to visit the Imperial harem.[16]

The internal matters of the palace were in her charge. But she did not want to hurt anyone's feelings in the least, did not interfere in the matters, sought justice and equity, and because she was firmly religious she passed a good deal of time in prayers. She possessed good, high moral standards, which led her to help the poor and needy.[17]

Abdul Hamid particularly wanted Perestu to attend the Royal Mosque Procession every Friday. Sometimes after the ceremony she would secretly slip out to her villa, but when Abdul Hamid learned of it, he immediately aided set off from the palace with a carriage and brought her back.[7]

In 1891, Perestu commissioned a fountain (sebil) in Bala Tekkesi, Silivrikapı and another fountain (çeşme) in the same place in 1895.[18]

Death

Perestu died around 1906 in her mid 70s[2][3] in her villa located at Maçka, Istanbul. The traditional service at which the Prophet's Nativity Poem is recited was held in her memory at the Shaziliya Dervish Convent and at the Yıldız Hamidiye Mosque.[7]

She lies at rest in the mausoleum of Mihrişah Valide Sultan in Eyüp, Istanbul.[19]

Honours

In literature and popular culture

  • Rahime Perestu Sultan is a character in Hıfzı Topuz's historical novel Abdülmecit: İmparatorluk Çökerken Sarayda 22 Yıl: Roman (2009).[20]
  • Rahime Perestu Sultan is a character in Tim Symonds' historical novel Sherlock Holmes and The Sword of Osman (2015).[21]

See also

References

  1. ^ Uluçay 2011, p. 206.
  2. ^ a b Brookes 2010, p. 287.
  3. ^ a b Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 585.
  4. ^ a b Uluçay 2011, p. 207.
  5. ^ a b c Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 586.
  6. ^ Mehmet Nermi Haskan (2001). Yüzyıllar boyunca Üsküdar. Üsküdar Belediyesi. p. 764. ISBN 978-975-97606-2-5.
  7. ^ a b c d Brookes 2010, p. 130.
  8. ^ Brookes 2010, p. 131-2.
  9. ^ Öztuna, Yılmaz (5 January 2017). II. Abdülhamid: Zamanı ve Şahsiyeti. Ötüken Neşriyat A.Ş. ISBN 978-6-051-55537-9.
  10. ^ Brookes 2010, p. 134.
  11. ^ Brookes 2010, p. 134-5.
  12. ^ Topuz, Hıfzı (2009). Nişantaşı anıları. Heyamola Yayınları. p. 24. ISBN 978-6-054-30721-0.
  13. ^ Karpat, Kemal H. (3 May 2001). The Politicization of Islam: Reconstructing Identity, State, Faith, and Community in the Late Ottoman State. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-190-28576-0.
  14. ^ Fanny Davis (1986). The Ottoman Lady: A Social History from 1718 to 1918. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 6. ISBN 978-0-313-24811-5.
  15. ^ Brookes 2010, p. 129-30.
  16. ^ Anne-Marie Riiber (1959). Drottning Sophia. (Queen Sophia) Uppsala: J. A. Lindblads Förlag. ISBN page 219
  17. ^ a b c d Brookes 2010, p. 129.
  18. ^ Uluçay 2011, p. 208.
  19. ^ Bahdıroğlu, Yavuz (1 May 2014). Osmanlı'da Şehzade Katli. Nesil Basım Yayın Gıda Ticaret ve Sanayi A.Ş. ISBN 978-6-051-62218-7.
  20. ^ Hıfzı Topuz (2009). Abdülmecit: İmparatorluk Çökerken Sarayda 22 Yıl: Roman. Remzi Kitabevi. p. 64. ISBN 978-975-14-1357-4.
  21. ^ Symonds, Tim (14 October 2015). Sherlock Holmes and The Sword of Osman. Andrews UK Limited. ISBN 978-1-780-92756-5.
  22. ^ Payitaht Abdülhamid - Rahime Perestu Valide Sultan - Şefika Ümit Tolun Kimdir (Gerçek İsmi, Rolü, Öldü mü, Ayrıldı mı), retrieved 30 December 2018

Sources

  • Brookes, Douglas Scott (2010). The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher: Voices from the Ottoman Harem. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-78335-5.
  • Sakaoğlu, Necdet (2008). Bu mülkün kadın sultanları: Vâlide sultanlar, hâtunlar, hasekiler, kadınefendiler, sultanefendiler. Oğlak Yayıncılık. ISBN 978-9-753-29623-6.
  • Uluçay, Mustafa Çağatay (2011). Padişahların kadınları ve kızları. Ankara: Ötüken. ISBN 978-9-754-37840-5.

Further reading

External links

Ottoman royalty
Preceded by Valide Sultan
31 August 1876 – 1904
Vacant
This page was last edited on 18 February 2024, at 20:57
Basis of this page is in Wikipedia. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported License. Non-text media are available under their specified licenses. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. WIKI 2 is an independent company and has no affiliation with Wikimedia Foundation.