Kösem Sultan: Difference between revisions

| birth_date = {{circa}} 1589<ref name="EI">Baysun, M. Cavid, s.v. "Kösem Walide or Kösem Sultan" in ''The Encyclopaedia of Islam'' vol. V (1986), Brill, p. 272 "</ref>

Kösem is generally said to be of [[Greeks|Greek]] origin,<ref name="Amila Buturović, İrvin Cemil Schick 2007 23">{{cite book |author=(missing author name) |chapter=(missing paper title) |title=Women in the Ottoman Balkans: gender, culture and history |editor-last1=Buturović |editor-first1=Amila |editor-last2=Schick |editor-first2=İrvin Cemil |publisher=I.B.Tauris |year=2007 |isbn=978-1-84511-505-0 |page=23 |quote=Kösem, who was of Greek origin. Orphaned very young, she found herself at the age of fifteen in the harem of Sultan Ahmed I.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Finkel |first=Caroline |title=Osman's Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1923 |place=New York |publisher=Basic Books |date=2005 |pages=197 |isbn=978-0-465-02396-7}}</ref><ref name="EI">Baysun, M. Cavid, s.v. "Kösem Walide or Kösem Sultan" in The Encyclopaedia of Islam vol. V (1986), Brill, p. 272: "Kösem Wālide or Kösem Sulṭān called Māhpaykar (ca. 1589-1651), wife of the Ottoman sultan Aḥmad I and mother of the sultans Murād IV and Ibrāhīm I [q.vv.]. She was Greek by birth, and achieved power in the first place through the harem, exercising a decisive influence in the state during the reigns of her two sons and of her grandson Meḥemmed IV". The views put forward concerning her origin and her first name (...) do not seem reliable.</ref> the daughter of a [[Greek Orthodox]] priest on the island of [[Tinos]] whose maiden name was [[Anastasia]].<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Murād IV |encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia of Islam |last=Groot |first=A.H. de |edition=2nd |doi=10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_5533}}</ref><ref name="Hogan, Christine 2006 74">{{cite book |last=Hogan |first=Christine |title=The Veiled Lands: A Woman's Journey Into the Heart of the Islamic World |publisher=Macmillan Publishers Aus |year=2006 |page=74 |isbn=9781405037013}}</ref>, but these views do not seem reliable.<ref name="EI"/>