Sultan-Agha Khanum

Sultan-Agha Khanum (Persian: سلطان آقا خانم‎, romanized: Soltān-Āqā Xānum) was a Safavid queen consort of Circassian origin, as the second wife of Safavid king Tahmasp I (r. 1524–1576). She married Tahmasp I sometime before 1548, and was the sister of the Safavid-Circassian noble Shamkhal Sultan, as well as the mother of princess Pari Khan Khanum and prince Suleiman Mirza (b. 28 March 1554, Nakhchivan).[1][2][3]

Portrait of Sultan-Agha Khanum. 17th-century Italian painting based on the engraving of 1596 by Johann Theodor de Bry.

References

1. Parsadust 2009.
2. Nashat & Beck 2003, p. 147.
3. Bierbrier 1997, pp. 235, 239-240.

Sources

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• Nashat, Guity; Beck, Lois, eds. (2003). Women in Iran from the Rise of Islam to 1800. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0252071218.
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• Parsadust, Manuchehr (2009). "PARIḴĀN ḴĀNOM". Encyclopaedia Iranica.