Alamshah Halime Begum

Alamshah Halima Begum
Alamshah Halima Begum
Born	1460; Aq Qoyunlu
Died	1522 (aged 61–62)
Spouse	Shaykh Haydar
Issue	Ismail I; Sheikh Sultan Ali; Sheikh Ibrahim; Fakhr Jahan Khanum; Melek Khanum; Other two daughters;
Father	Uzun Hasan
Mother	Teodora Despina Khatun
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Alamshah Halima Begum (1460–1522) (Azerbaijani: عالم‌شاه حلیمه بیگم) was a Turkoman Aq Qoyunlu princess. She was the daughter of Uzun Hasan and Teodora Despina Khatun, and the mother of Ismail I.

Name

There are different opinions about her real name.^[2] It may have been Halima, Halime, Alamshah, Alemshah, Alamşah, Alemşah,^[3]^[4] or Martha.^[5]

Life

Her father was the Aq Qoyunlu ruler Uzun Hasan and her mother was the daughter of John IV of Trebizond,^[6] Theodora Megale Komnene, also known as "Despina Hatun".^[7] There is no reliable information about the first years of her life. In 1471 she married Shaykh Haydar, the son of her aunt Khadija Khatun (her father's sister) and the sheikh of the Safavid Order. They had three sons, Ali Mirza Safavi, Ibrahim and Ismail I and four daughters.^{[citation needed]}

Issue

By her husband, she had three sons and four daughters:

Ismail I (1487 - 1524). First Shah of Safavid dynasty.
Ali Mirza Safavi (d. 1494). He was the penultimate head of the Safavid order.
Shaykh Ibrahim.
Fakhr Jahan Khanum. She married Bayram Beg Qaramanlu.
Melek Khanum. She married Abdallah Khan Shamlu.
A daughter who married Husayn Beg Shamlu.
A daughter who married Shah Ali Beg.

References

^ Robinson, Basil William (1993). Studies in Persian Art. Pindar Press. p. 20. ISBN 978-0-907132-43-1. No other prince of the time can be credibly associated with this work, and the galloping bearded prince in the center of the composition, we may be permitted to recognize a contemporary portrait of the founder of the White Sheep Turkman power. Uzun Hasan.
^ Həbib əl-Siyər, IV cild, səh. 425, 428
^ A. D. Możṭar, Cahanguşa-i Xaqan, İslamabad,1971.
^ İsgəndər bəy Münşi, Tarixe-aləmaraye-Abbasi
^ G. Sarwar, The History of Shāh Ismāʿīl Ṣafawī, Aligarh, 1939
^ Şərəf Xan Bitlisi ―Şərəfnamə, II cild, s. 133-134
^ Michel Kuršanskis, "La descendance d'Alexis IV, empereur de Trébizonde. Contribution à la prosopographie des Grands Comnènes", Revue des études byzantines, 37 (1979), pp. 239-247

[1] Robinson, Basil William (1993). Studies in Persian Art. Pindar Press. p. 20. ISBN 978-0-907132-43-1. No other prince of the time can be credibly associated with this work, and the galloping bearded prince in the center of the composition, we may be permitted to recognize a contemporary portrait of the founder of the White Sheep Turkman power. Uzun Hasan.

[2] Həbib əl-Siyər, IV cild, səh. 425, 428

[3] A. D. Możṭar, Cahanguşa-i Xaqan, İslamabad,1971.

[4] İsgəndər bəy Münşi, Tarixe-aləmaraye-Abbasi

[5] G. Sarwar, The History of Shāh Ismāʿīl Ṣafawī, Aligarh, 1939

[6] Şərəf Xan Bitlisi ―Şərəfnamə, II cild, s. 133-134

[7] Michel Kuršanskis, "La descendance d'Alexis IV, empereur de Trébizonde. Contribution à la prosopographie des Grands Comnènes", Revue des études byzantines, 37 (1979), pp. 239-247

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Alamshah Halima Begum
Born	1460 Aq Qoyunlu
Died	1522(1522-00-00) (aged 61–62)
Spouse	Shaykh Haydar
Issue	Ismail I Sheikh Sultan Ali Sheikh Ibrahim Fakhr Jahan Khanum Melek Khanum Other two daughters
Father	Uzun Hasan
Mother	Teodora Despina Khatun