Şayan Kadın ( ota, شایان قادین; 1853 – 1919) was the third wife of Sultan
Murad V
Murad V ( ota, مراد خامس, translit=Murâd-ı ḫâmis; tr, V. Murad; 21 September 1840 – 29 August 1904) was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire who reigned from 30 May to 31 August 1876. The son of Abdulmejid I, he supported the ...
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Biography
Born in the
Caucasus
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in 1853, Şayan had been formerly a member of the household of scholar Sıddık Molla.
She married Murad probably in the mid-1860s. She had exquisite blue eyes, pink nose, made her a marvel in feminine loveliness. Murad's love and affection for her made other consorts jealous of her.
After sometime Şayan became pregnant with her first child.
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sent over her palace midwife to abort the child. When the midwife arrived to abort the child, Murad obtained permission from Sultan
Abdulaziz for this child to be aborted outside the villa. The pregnant Şayan was taken to the home of Dr. Mehmed Emin Pasha for the abortion, But at Murad's request the doctor prepared a harmless concoction for her and sent her back to the prince's villa, while reporting to the palace that he had administrated treatment to induce abortion.
Hatice Sultan was born in Murad's villa in Kurbağalıdere on 5 April 1870 and indeed she was brought up concealed in the villa until Murad ascended the throne.
Murad ascended the throne on 30 May 1876, after the deposition of his uncle Sultan Abdulaziz, Şayan was given the title of "Third Kadın". After reigning for three months, Murad was deposed on 30 August 1876, due to mental instability and was imprisoned in the Çırağan Palace. Şayan and her six years old daughter followed him into confinement.
After Murad's death in 1904, she remained in the Çırağan Palace when every one else had left. She died during the
Occupation of Constantinople
The occupation of Istanbul ( tr, İstanbul'un İşgali; 12 November 1918 – 4 October 1923), the capital of the Ottoman Empire, by British, French, Italian, and Greek forces, took place in accordance with the Armistice of Mudros, which ended Ot ...
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Issue
In literature
* Şayan is a character in Ayşe Osmanoğlu's historical novel The Gilded Cage on the Bosphorus (2020).
See also
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Kadın (title)
Kadın ( ota, قادین) was the title given to the imperial consort of the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire towards the beginning of the seventeenth century. The title came into official usage at the end of the century, and remained in usage until th ...
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Ottoman Imperial Harem
The Imperial Harem ( ota, حرم همايون, ) of the Ottoman Empire was the Ottoman sultan's harem – composed of the wives, servants (both female slaves and eunuchs), female relatives and the sultan's concubines – occupying a secluded po ...
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List of consorts of the Ottoman sultans
This is a list of Consorts of the Ottoman sultans, the wives and concubines of the monarchs of the Ottoman Empire who ruled over the transcontinental empire from its inception in 1299 to its dissolution in 1922.
Honorific and titles
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1853 births
Wives of Ottoman sultans
1910s deaths