Shafaq Nur Hanimefendi

Shafaq Nur Hanimefendi
Fourth Princess of Egypt
Second Hanimefendi of Egypt
Tenure 15 November 1852 - 1866
Fourth Princess of Egypt
Tenure 1866 - 26 June 1879
Walida Pasha of Egypt
Tenure 26 June 1879 - 17 March 1884
Born c.1833
Constantinople
Died 17 March 1884 (age:51)
Burial Khedival Mausoleum, Al-Rifa'i Mosque, Cairo, Egypt
Spouse Isma'il Pasha
Issue Tewfik Pasha
Full name
Shafaq Nur Hanimefendi
House House of Muhammad Ali (by marriage)
Religion Orthodox Christian at birth, converted to Islam after her capture

Shafaq Nur Hanimefendi (Arabic: شفق نور هانم افندى)(Turkish: Şefeknur Hanımefendi) was the fourth wife of Khedive Isma'il Pasha and was Walida Pasha to their son Tewfik Pasha, the next Khedive of Egypt and Sudan.

Biography

Shafaq Nur Hanimefendi was born in Constantinople.She was delivered to the harem of the Ottoman Sultan Abdulaziz I as a concubine.However,Abdulaziz gave her as a gift to Isma'il Pasha,the Khedive of Egypt.Shafaq Nur gave birth to Tewfik Pasha in 1852,earning her the title of second hanimefendi,meaning second consort.Sultan Abdulaziz ordered Isma'il Pasha to legally marry Shafaq Nur in order to strengthen the ties between the Ottoman Empire and Egypt.The Khedive agreed and he legally married her in 1866, elevating her to the position of the Fourth Princess.[1] Ismail wad deposed by the Sultan of Turkey acting on the advice of the European powers, 26 June 1879, and his son became the Khedive and Shafaq Nur became the Walida Pasha. Shafak Nur exerted considerable influence on him emerging as his staunch defender as the royal family split on the 'Urabi revolution. Alexander Meyrick Broadley, the British lawyer who defender general 'Urabi, described the way she subjected the princesses of the royal family who supported the leader of the revolution to a tongue lashing for their disloyalty and promising to severely punishing them.[2] She died at the Kasr al-'Ali Palace, Cairo, 17 March 1884, and was buried there at the Khedival Mausoleum, Al-Rifa'i Mosque.[3]

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References

  1. Beshara Doumani (February 1, 2012). Family History in the Middle East: Household, Property, and Gender. SUNY Press. p. 258. ISBN 978-0-791-48707-5.
  2. Mervat F. Hatem (April 12, 2011). Literature, Gender, and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Egypt: The Life and Works of `A'isha Taymur. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 88. ISBN 978-0-230-11860-7.
  3. http://www.oocities.org/hazemsakr/royal/ismail.html His Highness Hidiv Ismail Paşa Hidiv of Misir (Egypt), Sudan and Taşoz
Egyptian royalty
Preceded by
Hoshiar Kadinefendi
Walida Pasha of Egypt
26 June 1879 - 17 March 1884
Succeeded by
Emina Ilhamy
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