List of the mothers of the Safavid Shahs

This list includes the biological mothers of Safavid Shahs. There were eleven shahs (kings) of the Safavid Empire in ten generations. Throughout 235-years history the shahs were all members of the same house, the house of Safavid.

Name (Birth Name)	Son	Ethnicity
Alam-Shah Begum (Halima, Mart[h]a)	Ismail I	half Greek - half Turcoman[1]
Tajlu Khanum (Shah-Begi Khanum)	Tahmasp I	Turcoman[2]
Sultanum Begum	Ismail II and Mohammad Khodabanda	Turcoman
Khayr al-Nisa Begum	Abbas I	Mazanderani
Dilaram Khanum	Shah Safi	Georgian[3]
Anna Khanum	Abbas II	Circassian[4]
Nakihat Khanum	Suleiman I of Persia	Circassian[5]
Unknown	Sultan Husayn	Circassian[6]
Unknown	Tahmasp II	Unknown
Unknown	Abbas III	Unknown
Shahrbanu Begum[7]	Suleiman II	Unknown
Khan Aqa Begum or Maryam Begum[7]	Ismail III	Unknown

See also

• Safavid dynasty family tree

References

1. Peter Charanis. "Review of Emile Janssens' Trébizonde en Colchide", Speculum, Vol. 45, No. 3,, (Jul., 1970), p. 476
2. Women in Iran: From the Rise of Islam to 1800 ed. Nashat and Beck (University of Illinois Press, 2003) p.145
3. Sussan Babaie and others: Slaves of the Shah (I.B. Tauris, 2003) p.104
4. Andrew J. Newman Safavid Iran (I.B.Tauris) p.81
5. Newman 2008, pp. 55, 93, 100.
6. Matthee 2012.
7. Kissling, H. J.; Spuler, Bertold; Barbour, N.; Trimingham, J. S.; Braun, H.; Hartel, H. (August 1, 1997). The Last Great Muslim Empires. BRILL. p. 210. ISBN 978-9-004-02104-4.

Sources

• Matthee, R. (2012). "Sulṭān Ḥusayn". In P. Bearman; Th. Bianquis; C.E. Bosworth; E. van Donzel; W.P. Heinrichs (eds.). The Encyclopedia of Islam, Second Edition. Brill Online. doi:10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_7180.
• Newman, Andrew J. (2008). Safavid Iran: Rebirth of a Persian Empire. I.B.Tauris. ISBN 978-0857716613.