Naile Sultan (daughter of Abdulmejid I)

Naile Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: نائله سلطان‎; 30 September 1856 – 7 January 1882) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Sultan Abdulmejid I and Şayeste Hanım. She was the half-sister of Sultans Murad V, Abdul Hamid II, Mehmed V, and Mehmed VI.

Naile Sultan
Born	30 September 1856 Dolmabahçe Palace, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (present day Istanbul, Turkey)
Died	7 January 1882 (aged 25) Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Burial	New Mosque, Istanbul
Spouse	Kabaksal Çerkes Mehmed Pasha ​ ​ (m. 1876)​
Dynasty	Ottoman
Father	Abdulmejid I
Mother	Şayeste Hanım
Religion	Sunni Islam

Early life

Naile Sultan was born on 30 September 1856 in the Dolmabahçe Palace.[1] Her father was Sultan Abdulmejid I, and her mother was Şayeste Hanım,[2] the daughter of Prince Tataş Bey Inalipa and Sarey Hanım.[3] Naile lost her father when she was five.[2]

Marriage

In 1876, her mother arranged her marriage to Kabasakal Çerkes Mehmed Pasha, a relative of her and Shamil, 3rd Imam of Dagestan. The marriage took place on 6 October 1876,[4][5] during the reign of her brother, Abdul Hamid II. Although Sultan Abdulaziz had ordered her trousseaux, he was completely unable to arrange marriage for her.[6] Her dowry was prepared with her half-sisters Behice Sultan, Seniha Sultan and Mediha Sultan. [7] The couple were given a waterfront palace known as "Esma Sultan Mansion", located near the Örtaköy Mosque, as their residence.[2]

Death

Naile Sultan died childless on 7 January 1882 at the age of twenty five, and was buried in the mausoleum of new ladies in New Mosque, Istanbul.[1][5] After her death Mehmed Pasha married Esma Sultan, the daughter of Sultan Abdülaziz and Gevheri Kadın.[8][9] The two moved in Naile Sultan's palace in which Mehmed Pasha and Naile previously lived.[10] Her mother outlived her by thirty years, dying in 1912.[11]

Ancestry

Ancestors of Naile Sultan (daughter of Abdulmejid I)
16. Ahmed III 8. Abdul Hamid I 17. Şermi Kadın 4. Mahmud II 9. Nakşidil Sultan 2. Abdulmejid I 5. Bezmiâlem Sultan 1. Naile Sultan 6. Tataş Inalipa 3. Şayeste Hanım 7. Sarey Hanım

See also

• List of Ottoman princesses

References

1. Uluçay 2011, p. 232.
2. Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 633.
3. Açba 2007, p. 69.
4. Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 634.
5. Brookes 2010, p. 285.
6. Brookes 2010, p. 159.
7. Kahya, Özge (2012). Sultan Abdülmecid'in kızı Mediha Sultan'ın hayatı (1856-1928). p. 53.
8. Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 635.
9. Brookes 2010, p. 282.
10. Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 645-6.
11. Brookes 2010, p. 289.

Sources

• Açba, Harun (2007). Kadın efendiler: 1839-1924. Profil. ISBN 978-9-759-96109-1.
• 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.