Şadiye Sultan

Şadiye Sultan
Born(1886-11-30)30 November 1886
Yıldız Palace, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(now Istanbul, Turkey)
Died20 November 1977(1977-11-20) (aged 90)
Cihangir, Istanbul, Turkey
Burial
Mahmud II Mausoleum, Divanyolu, Istanbul
Spouse
Fahir Bey
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(m. 1910; died 1922)​

Reşad Halis Bey
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(m. 1931; died 1944)​
IssueFirst marriage
Samiye Hanımsultan
Names
Turkish: Şadiye Sultan
Ottoman Turkish: شادیه سلطان
DynastyOttoman
FatherAbdul Hamid II
MotherEmsalinur Kadın
ReligionSunni Islam

Şadiye Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: شادیه سلطان, "successful, blessed, destinated to happy"; 30 November 1886 – 20 November 1977) was an Ottoman princess and memoir writer, the daughter of Sultan Abdul Hamid II and Emsalinur Kadın.

Early life and education

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Şadiye Sultan was born on 30 November 1886 in the Yıldız Palace. Her father was Sultan Abdul Hamid II, son of Abdulmejid I and Tirimüjgan Kadın. Her mother was Emsalinur Kadın.[1][2][3][4] She was the only child of her mother.[5]

Şadiye Sultan's education took place in a study room in the Lesser Chancellery of the Yıldız Palace, together with her younger sister Ayşe Sultan. Their instructors were the privy secretary Hasib Efendi and the Private Enciphering Secretary Kâmil Efendi. Hasib Efendi would give lessons in the Quran, Arabic, and Persian, while Kâmil Efendi was to teach Turkish reading and writing, Ottoman grammar, arithmetic, history, and geography.[6]

Engagements

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Şadiye Sultan young

On 31 March 1909, Abdul Hamid betrothed her to Ali Namık Bey, son of Küçük Said Pasha. After the overthrow of her father in 1909, the princess followed her father into exile at Thessaloniki. The next year she returned to Istanbul. However, the engagement was broken off because of Said Pasha's attitude against her father. Enver Pasha also asked her hand in marriage, but she turned down this proposal, because he was involved in the deposition of her father.[7] Her engagement was then set with a son of Zülüflü Ismail Pasha. He was congenial and handsome. However, the Turkish Republic government opposed the match.[8]

First marriage

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Şadiye Sultan's husband Fahir Bey and their daughter Samiye Hanımsultan
Samiye Hanımsultan

Şadiye was betrothed to Fahir Bey, son of Mustafa Fazıl Bey, and the grandson of Galib Pasha, the long-serving minister of pious foundations, rightly renowned for his uprightness and integrity. Fahir was an attractive, good-natured and well cultivated man.[8] The marriage took place on 2 December 1910 in the Nişantaşı Palace. The couple had a daughter, Samiye Hanımsultan born in 1918.[7][9] Şadiye was widowed at Fahir's death on 27 September 1922.[7][9]

Philanthropy

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In 1912, the "Hilal-i Ahmer Centre for Women" was organised within the "Ottoman Hilal-i Ahmer Association", a foundation established in 1877 to provide medical care in Istanbul and surrounding communities.[10] In May 1915, during the Gallipoli Campaign, as the member of this organisation, Şadiye donated two packages of cigarettes and some money to each of the soldiers at the hospital in Şişli.[11]

Second marriage

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Şadiye Sultan's second husband, Reşad Halis Bey

At the exile of the imperial family in March 1924, Şadiye Sultan settled in Paris, where she married Reşad Halis Bey on 28 October 1931. They had no children. She was widowed at his death in November 1944.[9][1] She moved to the United States where lived her daughter and, after the end of the Second World War, traveled extensively around Europe. Finally, in 1953, he returned to Istanbul, where the exile for the princesses had been lifted the year before.[12]

Later life and death

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After the death of her husband, Şadiye moved to Hotel Saint-Honore, and took a room adjacent to her brother Şehzade Abdurrahim Hayri,[13] until her return to Istanbul in 1952 after the revocation of the law for the princesses.[14]

In 1966, she published her memoirs under the title Hayatımın acı ve tatlı günleri (The bitter and sweet days of my life).[15] The same year she gave an interview about the life of her father, to reporter Muzaffer Budak Seyfettinoğlu from the magazine Yeni Istikal, whose 253rd issue was published on 15 June 1966.[16]

She died in Cihangir at the age of ninety on 20 November 1977, having outliving her mother by twenty-five years. She was the last surviving child of Sultan Abdul Hamid. She was buried in the tomb of her great-grandfather Sultan Mahmud II, located in Divanyolu, Istanbul.[2][9][7] Her daughter outlived her by fifteen years dying in 1992.[9]

Honours

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Issue

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Name Birth Death Notes
By Fahir Bey (married 2 December 1910; 1882 – 27 September 1922)
Samiye Hanımsultan c. 1918[9] 20 November 1992[9] Born in Nişantaşı Palace; Married without issue;[9]
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Ancestry

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References

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  1. ^ a b Uluçay 2011, p. 256.
  2. ^ a b Brookes 2010, p. 289.
  3. ^ Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 692.
  4. ^ Bağce, Betül Kübra (2008). II. Abdulhamid kızı Naime Sultan'in Hayati. p. 19.
  5. ^ Uluçay 2011, p. 248, 256.
  6. ^ Brookes 2010, p. 149-50.
  7. ^ a b c d Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 693.
  8. ^ a b Brookes, Douglas S. (4 February 2020). On the Sultan's Service: Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil's Memoir of the Ottoman Palace, 1909–1912. Indiana University Press. p. 65. ISBN 978-0-253-04553-9.
  9. ^ a b c d e f g h Adra, Jamil (2005). Genealogy of the Imperial Ottoman Family 2005. pp. 27.
  10. ^ Hacker, Barton; Vining, Margaret (17 August 2012). A Companion to Women's Military History. BRILL. p. 199. ISBN 978-9-004-21217-6.
  11. ^ Os, Nicolina Anna Norberta Maria van (31 October 2013). Feminism, Philanthropy and Patriotism: Female Associational Life in the Ottoman Empire. Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS), Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University. pp. 449–50.
  12. ^ Milanlıoğlu, Neval (2011). Emine Naciye Sultan'ın Hayatı (1896-1957). pp. 128 r.25.
  13. ^ "AZ KALSIN HALİFE OLACAKTI". Ekrem Buğra Ekinci. 22 August 2012. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
  14. ^ "Abdülhamid'in 82 yaşında evsiz ve parasız kalan hanımı, devletten bir evde 'bekçilik etme' izni istiyor!". Habertürk. 13 August 2017. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
  15. ^ Zirin, Mary; Livezeanu, Irina; Worobec, Christine D.; Farris, June Pchuta (March 26, 2015). Women and Gender in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia: A Comprehensive Bibliography Volume I: Southeastern and East Central Europe (Edited by Irina Livezeanu with June Pachuta Farris) Volume II: Russia, the Non-Russian Peoples of the Russian. Routledge. p. 237. ISBN 978-1-317-45197-6.
  16. ^ "II. Abdülhamid Han'ın kızı Şadiye Sultana sorulan 3 soru ve verdiği cevap". Yeni Şafak. 16 April 2019. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
  17. ^ a b c d e f Yılmaz Öztuna (1978). Başlangıcından zamanımıza kadar büyük Türkiye tarihi: Türkiye'nin siyasî, medenî, kültür, teşkilât ve san'at tarihi. Ötüken Yayınevi. p. 165.
  18. ^ "Payitaht Abdülhamid - Şadiye Sultan - Leya Kırşan Kimdir (Gerçek İsmi, Rolü, Öldü mü, Ayrıldı mı)". Dizisi (in Turkish). 2020-05-15. Retrieved 2021-04-20.

Sources

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  • 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.
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