The role of court women in the political developments of the Ottoman government from the time of Suleiman the Magnificent to Abdul Hamid II

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Authors

1 Department of History, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran

2 Department of History, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad Branch, Iran

3 Assistant Professor and faculty member of Department of History, Faculty of Literature, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

This article examines the role of four prominent women of the Ottoman court named Khorram Sultan, Nourbano, Mah Peykar (Cosm Sultan) and Ume Doriori of France and tries to explain the role of these women in political developments. They were able to play a role in important political developments. Mentioning her children to succeed the sultans, appointing and dismissing ministers and rulers, persuading the sultans to establish good relations or inciting them to attack neighboring countries, and finally selling government positions in exchange for bribes and corruption are among the most important political activities of women in the Ottoman court. Has been. With the enactment of the law of fratricide by the order of Muhammad the Conqueror and the approval of Shaykh al-Islam, every king who came to the throne after his father had to kill all his brothers. As a result, each of the sultans' wives sought to infiltrate the court at any cost in order to save their child. The content is provided in a descriptive-analytical manner.

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Historical Studies of the Islamic World
Volume 9, Issue 18 - Serial Number 18
Volume 9, Issue 18, Summer 2021
August 2021
Pages 116-139

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