Alamshah Halima Begum (1460–1522) (

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: عالم‌شاه حلیمه بیگم) was a Turkoman

Aq Qoyunlu The Aq Qoyunlu ( az, Ağqoyunlular , ) was a culturally Persianate,Kaushik Roy, ''Military Transition in Early Modern Asia, 1400–1750'', (Bloomsbury, 2014), 38; "Post-Mongol Persia and Iraq were ruled by two tribal confederations: Akkoyunlu (W ...

princess. She was the daughter of

Uzun Hasan Uzun Hasan or Uzun Hassan ( اوزون حسن; fa, اوزون حسن; 1423 – January 6, 1478; where ''uzun'' means "tall" in Oghuz Turkic) was a ruler of the Turkoman Aq Qoyunlu state and is generally considered to be its strongest ruler. H ...

and Teodora Despina Khatun, and the mother of

Ismail I Ismail I ( fa, اسماعیل, Esmāʿīl, ; July 17, 1487 – May 23, 1524), also known as Shah Ismail (), was the founder of the Safavid dynasty of Iran, ruling as its King of Kings ('' Shahanshah'') from 1501 to 1524. His reign is ofte ...

Name

There are different opinions about her real name. It may have been Halima, Halime, Alamshah, Alemshah, Alamşah, Alemşah, or Martha.

Life

Her father was the Aq Qoyunlu ruler Uzun Hasan and her mother was the daughter of

John IV of Trebizond John IV Megas Komnenos ( el, Ιωάννης Μέγας Κομνηνός, ''Iōannēs Megas Komnēnos'') (died April 1460) was Emperor of Empire of Trebizond, Trebizond from 1429 until his death. He was a son of Emperor Alexios IV of Trebizond and T ...

, Theodora Megale Komnene, also known as " Despina Hatun".Michel Kuršanskis
"La descendance d'Alexis IV, empereur de Trébizonde. Contribution à la prosopographie des Grands Comnènes"
''Revue des études byzantines'', 37 (1979), pp. 239-247 There is no reliable information about the first years of her life. In 1471 she married

Shaykh Haydar Shaykh Haydar or Sheikh Haydar ( ''Shaikh Ḥaidar''; b. 1459, Diyarbakır - d. 9 July 1488, Tabasaran) was the successor of his father (Shaykh Junayd) as leader of the Safavid order from 1460-1488. Haydar maintained the policies and political a ...

, the son of her aunt Khadija Khatun (her father's sister) and the sheikh of the Safavid Order. They had three sons,

Ali Mirza Safavi Ali Mirza Safavi also known as Soltan-Ali Safavi (died 1494) was the penultimate head of the Safavid order. Having grown wary of his political power, Ali Mirza was captured by the Ak Koyunlu and spent several years in captivity in Fars before bei ...

, Ibrahim and

and four daughters.

Issue

By her husband, she had three sons and four daughters: *

(1487 - 1524). First Shah of Safavid dynasty. *

(d. 1494). He was the penultimate head of the Safavid order. * Shaykh Ibrahim. * Fakhr Jahan Khanum. She married Bayram Beg Qaramanlu. * Melek Khanum. She married Abdallah Khan Shamlu. * A daughter who married

Husayn Beg Shamlu Hossein Beg Laleh Shamlu was a Qizilbash officer of Turkoman origin,{{sfn, Roemer, 1986, p=358 who occupied high offices under the Safavid king Ismail I (r. 1501–1524) and was the first person to serve as the '' vakil'' (vicegerent) of the emp ...

. * A daughter who married Shah Ali Beg.

References

{{Authority control 1522 deaths 1460 births People under the Aq Qoyunlu People of Byzantine descent Safavid dynasty 16th-century Iranian women 16th-century Iranian people