Khadija Begum

Khadija Begum
Khadija Begum
Spouse	Shaykh Junayd
Children	Shaykh Haydar
Parents	Ali Aq Qoyunlu (father); Sara Khatun (mother);

Khadija Begum, also Khadija Khatun or Khadija Beyim Khatun, was an Aq Qoyunlu princess and the daughter of the Aq Qoyunlu ruler Ali Aq Qoyunlu and his wife Sara Khatun, and was the sister of the famous Aq Qoyunlu ruler Uzun Hasan.^[1]

Sometime between 1456 and 1459, she married Shaykh Junayd, hereditary leader of the Safavid order and grandfather of the future founder of the Safavid Empire Shah Ismail, marking the establishment of a close genealogical connection between the Aq Qoyunlu and the Safavids.^[2] ^[1]^[3] They were married before Shaykh Junayd's invasion of Trebizond.^[2] Shaykh Junayd would die not long after the marriage, on 4 March 1460, killed in the Battle of Tabasaran.^[2]

Her son was Shaykh Haydar, who himself married an Aq Qoyunlu princess Alamshah Halime Begum, an union out of which was born Shah Ismail.^[1]

Sources

Ghereghlou, Kioumars (2016). "ḤAYDAR ṢAFAVI". Encyclopaedia Iranica.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Melville, Charles (1998). "History: From the Saljuqs to the Aq Qoyunlu (ca. 1000-1500 C.E.)". Iranian Studies. 31 (3/4): 476–477. ISSN 0021-0862. A long article on the AQ QOYUNLU by R. Quiring-Zoche underlines the essential Turk versus Tajik clash (esp. p. 166) that has been taken to characterize the whole period, particularly in the pioneering studies of Minorsky. Nevertheless, closer analysis might yield a more sophisticated picture than a simple dichotomy between 'men of the sword' and 'men of the pen'. Although the author refers to the marriage between Uzun Hasan's daughter and Sultan Haidar Safavi, the previous connection with Junaid is passed over. There is perhaps an insufficient emphasis on the extent to which the Safavids were themselves the posterity of the Aq Qoyunlu, not only in a genealogical sense, but also as heirs to a tribally constituted military elite posing the same problems for stable government.
^ ^a ^b ^c Ghereghlou 2016.
^ Newman, Andrew J. (31 March 2006). Safavid Iran: Rebirth of a Persian Empire. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 129. ISBN 978-1-86064-667-6.

[CM-1] Melville, Charles (1998). "History: From the Saljuqs to the Aq Qoyunlu (ca. 1000-1500 C.E.)". Iranian Studies. 31 (3/4): 476–477. ISSN 0021-0862. A long article on the AQ QOYUNLU by R. Quiring-Zoche underlines the essential Turk versus Tajik clash (esp. p. 166) that has been taken to characterize the whole period, particularly in the pioneering studies of Minorsky. Nevertheless, closer analysis might yield a more sophisticated picture than a simple dichotomy between 'men of the sword' and 'men of the pen'. Although the author refers to the marriage between Uzun Hasan's daughter and Sultan Haidar Safavi, the previous connection with Junaid is passed over. There is perhaps an insufficient emphasis on the extent to which the Safavids were themselves the posterity of the Aq Qoyunlu, not only in a genealogical sense, but also as heirs to a tribally constituted military elite posing the same problems for stable government.

[FOOTNOTEGhereghlou2016-2] Ghereghlou 2016.

[3] Newman, Andrew J. (31 March 2006). Safavid Iran: Rebirth of a Persian Empire. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 129. ISBN 978-1-86064-667-6.

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