Shehret Feza Hanim (Arabic: شهرت فزا هانم; Turkish: Şöhretfeza Hanım; died 1895; meaning "Empyrean fame"[3]) was the first wife of Khedive Isma'il Pasha of Egypt.

Shehret Feza Hanim
Died1895
Cairo, Khedivate of Egypt, Ottoman Empire
Burial
Khedival Mausoleum, Al-Rifa'i Mosque, Cairo, Egypt
SpouseIsma'il Pasha
Issue
Names
Arabic: شهرت فزا هانم
Turkish: Şöhretfeza Hanım[1]
Ottoman Turkish: شهرت فزا خانم[2]
HouseMuhammad Ali (by marriage)
ReligionSunni Islam
Tomb of Shehret Feza Hanim in Al-Rifa'i Mosque in Cairo

Marriage edit

Of Georgian origin,[3] Shehret Feza married Isma'il Pasha, as his first wife, before his accession to the throne.[4][5] She gave birth to two daughters, Princess Tawhida Hanim (died 1888) born in 1850, followed by Princess Fatima Hanim (died 1920), born in 1853.[6][7][8]

After Isma'il's accession to the throne in 1863, she was given the title of "First Princess",[4] a position at which she remained throughout his entire reign, until his deposition in 1879.[6] In Egypt she was known as Buyuk Hanim or Great Lady.[9] She mostly wore traditional Ottoman garments, featuring a few western details.[1]

After Jamal Nur Qadin's death in 1876, her son, Prince Ali Jamal Pasha was bought up and cared for by Shehret Feza, for whom he never felt more than mildly affectionate gratitude.[10]

Death edit

Shehret Feza Hanim died in 1895, and was buried in the Khedival Mausoleum, Al-Rifa'i Mosque.[11]

Honour edit

Foreign honour

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b Tanman, M (2011). Nil kıyısından Boğaziçi'ne : Kavalalı Mehmed Ali Paşa Hanedanı'nın İstanbul'daki izleri = From the shores of the Nile to the Bosphorus : traces of Kavalalı Mehmed Ali Pasha Dynasty in İstanbul (in Turkish). İstanbul: İstanbul Araştırmaları Enstitüsu. p. 45. ISBN 978-975-9123-95-6. OCLC 811064965.
  2. ^ Kal (1997). İstanbul su külliyât (in Turkish). İstanbul: İstanbul Aras̨tırmaları Merkezi. p. 98. ISBN 978-975-8215-04-1. OCLC 43430901.
  3. ^ a b Bulent Rauf (1995). The Last Sultans. Meral Arim. p. 232. ISBN 978-0-9525173-0-6.
  4. ^ a b Doumani 2003, p. 258.
  5. ^ Cuno, Kenneth M. (April 1, 2015). Modernizing Marriage: Family, Ideology, and Law in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Egypt. Syracuse University Press. p. 33. ISBN 978-0-815-65316-5.
  6. ^ a b Doumani 2003, p. 270.
  7. ^ "الخديوى اسماعيل - فاروق مصر". www.faroukmisr.net. Retrieved 2020-12-13.
  8. ^ "زوجات حكام مصر من عهد محمد على حتى عهد الملك فاروق الاول - فاروق مصر". www.faroukmisr.net. Retrieved 2020-12-13.
  9. ^ Chennells, E. (1893). Recollections of an Egyptian Princess. William Blackwood. p. 7.
  10. ^ Tugay, Emine Foat (1963). Three Centuries: Family Chronicles of Turkey and Egypt. Oxford University Press. pp. 166, 198.
  11. ^ "His Highness Hidiv Ismail Pasa". www.oocities.org. Retrieved 2020-12-13.
  12. ^ Öztürk, D. (2020). "Remembering" Egypt's Ottoman Past: Ottoman Consciousness in Egypt, 1841-1914. Ohio State University. pp. 72–73.

Source edit

  • Doumani, Beshara (2003). Family History in the Middle East: Household, Property, and Gender. SUNY Press. ISBN 978-0-791-48707-5.