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==Life==
==Life==

Her name appears in privy purse registers from 1619 on,{{sfn|Peirce|1993|page=311}} but nothing is known about her except her name.{{sfn|Uluçay|2011|p=88}}{{sfn|Peirce|1993|page=106}} Her origin is unknown, but the consorts of the Ottoman sultans were by custom normally [[concubinage in Islam|concubines]] who came to the [[Ottoman Imperial Harem|Ottoman Imperial harem]] via the [[Ottoman slave trade]].<ref>Peirce, Leslie (1993). The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-508677-5.</ref>
Her name appears in privy purse registers from 1619 on,{{sfn|Peirce|1993|page=311}} but nothing is known about her except her name.{{sfn|Uluçay|2011|p=88}}{{sfn|Peirce|1993|page=106}} Her origin is unknown, but the consorts of the Ottoman sultans were by custom normally [[concubinage in Islam|concubines]] who came to the [[Ottoman Imperial Harem|Ottoman Imperial harem]] via the [[Ottoman slave trade]].<ref>Peirce, Leslie (1993). The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-508677-5.</ref>



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Ayşe Sultan
Haseki Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
(Imperial Consort)
TenureJanuary 1620 – 20 May 1622
PredecessorKösem Sultan
SuccessorAyşe Sultan
Diedc. 1640
Topkapı Palace, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
SpouseOsman II
Names
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HouseHouse of Osman (by marriage)

Ayşe Sultan (Template:Lang-ota; "the living one" or "womanly", died c. 1640) was a consort of Sultan Osman II of the Ottoman Empire.[1][2][3]

Life

Her name appears in privy purse registers from 1619 on,[4] but nothing is known about her except her name.[3][1] Her origin is unknown, but the consorts of the Ottoman sultans were by custom normally concubines who came to the Ottoman Imperial harem via the Ottoman slave trade.[5]

According to Peirce, Ayşe was Osman's haseki sultan. But according to Piterberg, Osman II did not have a haseki and Ayşe was just "a politically insignificant consort." Even though her status was debatable, it is clear that Ayşe could not become a prominent female figure like other haseki sultans. Also, a governess (daye hatun, lit. wet-nurse) who was appointed as a stand-in valide, could not counterbalance the contriving of Mustafa I's mother in the Old Palace. This condition made the conspious absence of a female power basis in the harem during her spouse's reign, the basic and exceptional weakness from which Osman II suffered.[6]

After Osman's death in 1622 she stayed in the Old Palace.[1] Privy Purse records her presence lastly in 1640.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c Peirce 1993, p. 106.
  2. ^ Gabriel Piterberg (2003). An Ottoman Tragedy: History and Historiography at Play. University of California Press. pp. 18–19. ISBN 978-0-520-93005-6.
  3. ^ a b Uluçay 2011, p. 88.
  4. ^ a b Peirce 1993, p. 311.
  5. ^ Peirce, Leslie (1993). The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-508677-5.
  6. ^ Piterberg, Gabriel (2003). An Ottoman Tragedy: History and Historiography at Play. California: University of California Press. p. 18. ISBN 0-520-23836-2.

Sources

Ottoman royalty
Preceded by Haseki Sultan
January 1620 – 20 May 1622
Succeeded by