tr, Emine Hanım, italic=no , father = Nusratli Ali Agha , mother = , birth_date = 1770 , birth_place = Nustratli,

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, Imam-i Shafi'i Mausoleum, Cairo,

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Amina Hanim ( ar, أمينة خانم; tr, Emine Hanım; 1770 – 1824) was the first princess consort of

Muhammad Ali of Egypt Muhammad Ali Pasha al-Mas'ud ibn Agha, also known as Muhammad Ali of Egypt and the Sudan ( sq, Mehmet Ali Pasha, ar, محمد علي باشا, ; ota, محمد علی پاشا المسعود بن آغا; ; 4 March 1769 – 2 August 1849), was ...

, the first monarch of the Muhammad Ali dynasty.

Early life

Amina Hanim was born in 1770 at Nusratli, Rumeli Eyalet. She was the daughter of Nusretli Ali Agha, the governor of Kavala, and relative of the Chorbashi. She had two brothers, Mustafa Pasha, and Ali Pasha, and three sisters, Maryam Hanim, Pakiza Hanim, and Ifat Hanim.

First marriage

Amina Hanim had been earlier married to Ali Bey. However, the marriage was not consummated because her husband had died before the pair had cohabited.

Second marriage

Amina Hanim married

Muhammad Ali Pasha Muhammad Ali Pasha al-Mas'ud ibn Agha, also known as Muhammad Ali of Egypt and the Sudan ( sq, Mehmet Ali Pasha, ar, محمد علي باشا, ; ota, محمد علی پاشا المسعود بن آغا; ; 4 March 1769 – 2 August 1849), was ...

in 1787, long before he became the

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of Egypt, and rising to the rank of

Pasha Pasha, Pacha or Paşa ( ota, پاشا; tr, paşa; sq, Pashë; ar, باشا), in older works sometimes anglicized as bashaw, was a higher rank in the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman political and military system, typically granted to governors, gener ...

. She gave birth to four sons who survived to adulthood,

Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt Ibrahim Pasha ( tr, Kavalalı İbrahim Paşa; ar, إبراهيم باشا ''Ibrāhīm Bāshā''; 1789 – 10 November 1848) was an Ottoman Albanian general in the Egyptian army and the eldest son of Muhammad Ali, the Wāli and unrecognised ...

, Ahmad

Tusun Pasha Tusun Pasha ( ota, طوسون پاشا, ar, طوسون باشا, tr, Tosun Paşa, Ahmet Tosun Paşa; 1794–28 September 1816) was the younger son of Muhammad Ali Pasha, Wāli of Egypt between 1805 and 1849, by Amina Hanim. He was the father ...

, Isma'il Kamil Pasha, Abd al-Halim Bey, and two daughters, Tawhida Hanim, and Khadija Nazli Hanim. Muhammad Ali had a fondness for her, and treated her with respect. Amina Hanim did not accompany Muhammd Ali to Egypt, and after his appointment as viceroy in 1805, she and her daughters resided for a period of some two years in

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, where they became thoroughly acquainted with imperial palace culture. Upon her arrival and installation in the harem of the Citadel Palace in

in 1808, Amina Hanim became estranged from Muhammad Ali due to the many slave concubines he had acquired. In 1814 Amina Hanim made a pilgrimage, processing from

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with a train of 500 camels carrying her servants, entourage and goods. She was met by Muhammad Ali at Mina, a stage in the pilgrimage, in a public acknowledgment of her status as first consort. Due to the grandeur of her train and guard, and the sumptuous of her tent, the local inhabitants are said to have called her "the Queen of the Nile." When her son Tusun Pasha died of plague at the age of twenty three in 1816, Amina Hanim took his wife,

Bamba Qadin Bamba Qadin ( ar, بامبا قادین; tr, Pembe Kadın; died 1871; name meaning "Pink") was an Egyptian princess, and a member of the Muhammad Ali Dynasty. She is known also with the name of Umm Abbas. She was the wife of Tusun Pasha (1794� ...

, and her son Abbas, to live with her, and refused to be parted from him.

Death

Amina Hanim died in 1824, and was buried at

, the mausoleum of Imam-i Shafi'i in Cairo.

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