Fatima Soltan (died 1681) was a sovereign ''khanbika'' (queen) and last ruler of
Qasim Khanate from 1679 until 1681.
She was a daughter of
Agha Muhammad Shah Quli Sayyid and a wife of
Arslanghali khan. After the death of her husband in 1627 Russian tsar
Mikhail Romanov appointed her and her father Agha Muhammad as regents of her three-year-old son
Sayed Borhan
Sayed Borhan Khan (1624 – c. 1680) was a Khan (title), khan of Qasim Khanate from 1627 to 1679. He was a son of Arslanghali and Fatima Soltan. After the death of his father he was crowned as a khan of Qasim. Sayed Borhan's regents were Fatim ...
. Until Borhan abdicated in 1679 Fatima Soltan resisted his marriage to a Russian princess and the policy of Christianization and discrimination against Muslims by Moscow authorities. After Borhan abdicated she remained briefly in power as the last queen of the Khanate and after her death Qasim Khanate was abolished.
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Qasim Khanate
Year of birth missing
1681 deaths
17th-century monarchs in Europe
17th-century women rulers
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