Resan Hanım (Ottoman Turkish: رسان خانم, "softness" or "bright"; 28 March 1860 – 31 March 1910) was a consort of Sultan Murad V of the Ottoman Empire.
| Resan Hanım | |||||
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| Born | Ayşe Hanım 28 March 1860 Artvin, Ottoman Empire (present day Artvin, Turkey) | ||||
| Died | 31 March 1910 (aged 50) Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (present day Istanbul, Turkey) | ||||
| Burial | Mehmed Ali Pasha Mausoleum, Eyüp Cemetery, Istanbul | ||||
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| House | Ottoman (by marriage) | ||||
| Father | Ömer Bey | ||||
| Mother | Fatma Hanım | ||||
| Religion | Sunni Islam | ||||
Biography
editResan Hanım was born on 28 March 1860 in Artvin in the Caucasus.[1][2] She was Georgian, daughter of Ömer Bey and Fatma Hanım, and she had two sisters named Şayeste Hanım and Rabia Gülten Hanım. Her real name was Ayşe Hanim.[3] She and sisters were sent to Istanbul as (enslaved) ladies-in-waiting for Seniha Sultan, Murad V's half-sister. Resan was chosen by Seniha as a consort for Murad and she was presented to Murad by the Senior Kalfa as a gift on the occasion of his accession to the throne. After his deposition, she followed him into confinement in the Çırağan Palace.[3]
She married Murad on 2 November 1877[4] in the Çırağan Palace when Murad was thirty-seven years old and Resan was seventeen years old, a year after Murad and his family's imprisonment in the palace. On 19 June 1879, a year after the marriage, she gave birth to Fatma Sultan,[1] followed by Aliye Sultan, born on 24 August 1880. Aliye died on 17 September 1903.[5][6]
She was widowed at Murad's death in 1904, after which her ordeal in the Çırağan Palace came to an end. After Murad's death he stayed for a few years at Çırağan Palace to keep company with Şayan Kadın, Murad's third consort, who refused to leave the Palace. During the Second Constitutional Era she asked to be allowed to move to Yildiz Palace, but was denied. Instead, on 16 December 1908, she was allowed to move in with her daughter Fatma.[7]
She died on 31 March 1910 at the age of fifty because of tuberculosis,[8] and was buried in the mausoleum of Damat Mehmed Ali Pasha in Eyüp Cemetery, Istanbul.[9][10]
Issue
edit| Name | Birth | Death | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fatma Sultan | 19 June 1879[11][12] | 20 November 1932[13] | married once, and had issue, four sons and one daughter |
| Aliye Sultan | 24 August 1880[5][6] | 19 September 1903[5][6] | unmarried, and without issue |
In literature
edit- Resan is a character in Ayşe Osmanoğlu's historical novel The Gilded Cage on the Bosphorus (2020).[14]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Brookes 2010, p. 281.
- ^ Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 653.
- ^ a b Brookes 2010, p. 64.
- ^ Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 654.
- ^ a b c Uluçay 2011, p. 243.
- ^ a b c Brookes 2010, p. 278.
- ^ Brookes 2010, p. 17.
- ^ Brookes 2010, p. 288.
- ^ Uluçay 2011, p. 239.
- ^ Sakaoğlu 2008, pp. 653–654.
- ^ Uluçay 2011, p. 281.
- ^ Brookes 2010, p. 291.
- ^ Yolcu, Cengiz (2018). Sofya'da Medfun Bir Osmanlı Sultanı: V. Murad'ın Kızı Fatma Sultan. p. 40.
- ^ Osmanoğlu, Ayşe (May 30, 2020). The Gilded Cage on the Bosphorus: The Ottomans: The Story of a Family. Ayşe Osmanoğlu. ISBN 978-1-9163614-1-6.
Sources
edit- Uluçay, M. Çağatay (2011). Padişahların kadınları ve kızları. Ötüken. ISBN 978-9-754-37840-5.
- Sakaoğlu, Necdet (2008). Bu Mülkün Kadın Sultanları: Vâlide Sultanlar, Hâtunlar, Hasekiler, Kadınefendiler, Sultanefendiler. Oğlak Yayıncılık. ISBN 978-6-051-71079-2.
- 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.