Ismah Khatun ( fa, ) ( ar, عصمة خاتون) was the

Seljuk Seljuk or Saljuq (سلجوق) may refer to: * Seljuk Empire (1051–1153), a medieval empire in the Middle East and central Asia * Seljuk dynasty (c. 950–1307), the ruling dynasty of the Seljuk Empire and subsequent polities * Seljuk (warlord) (di ...

princess, daughter of sultan Malik Shah (r. 1072–1092) and principal wife of Abbasid caliph

al-Mustazhir Abu'l-Abbas Ahmad ibn Abdallah al-Muqtadi ( ar, أبو العباس أحمد بن عبد الله المقتدي) usually known simply by his regnal name Al-Mustazhir billah ( ar, المستظهر بالله) (b. April/May 1078 – 6 August 1118 d ...

(r. 1094–1118).

Background

Ismah Khatun was one of the youngest daughter of Seljuk sultan Malik Shah. She was very young when her father died in 1092, he was succeeded by his underage son Mahmud I under the regency of Terken Khatun. She was the regent during his minority in 1092–1094.Mernissi, Fatima; Mary Jo Lakeland (2003). The forgotten queens of Islam. Oxford University Press. . Later her other brothers;

Berkyaruq Rukn al-Din Abu'l-Muzaffar Berkyaruq ibn Malikshah ( fa, ابو المظفر رکن الدین برکیارق بن ملکشاه, Rukn al-Dīn Abuʿl-Moẓaffar Berkyāruq ibn Malik-Šāh; 1079/80 – 1105), better known as Berkyaruq (), was the f ...

Malik-Shah II Malik-Shah II ( fa, ملک شاه دوم; tr, II. Melikşah) or Mu'izz ad-Din Malik Shah II was Seljuq Sultan in Baghdad during 1105. He was the grandson of Malik Shah I, and was theoretically the head of the dynasty, although his relative Ahm ...

and

Muhammad Tapar Abu Shuja Ghiyath al-Dunya wa'l-Din Muhammad ibn Malik-Shah ( fa, , Abū Shujāʿ Ghiyāth al-Dunyā wa ’l-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Malik-Šāh; 1082 – 1118), better known as Muhammad I Tapar (), was the sultan of the Seljuk Empire from 1105 to 111 ...

also became Sultans.

Biography

She was one of Al-Mustazhir's wives. She was the daughter of Seljuk Sultan

Malik-Shah I Jalāl al-Dawla Mu'izz al-Dunyā Wa'l-Din Abu'l-Fatḥ ibn Alp Arslān (8 August 1055 – 19 November 1092, full name: fa, ), better known by his regnal name of Malik-Shah I ( fa, ), was the third sultan of the Great Seljuk Empire from 1072 to ...

. Al-Mustazhir married her in Isfahan in 1109. She later came to

Baghdad Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon ...

and took up residence in the Caliphal palace. On 3 February 1112, she gave birth to prince Abu Ishaq Ibrahim, who died of smallpox in October 1114, and was buried in the ''mausoleum of al-Muqtadir'' in Rusafah Cemetery, beside his uncle Ja'far, son of the caliph al-Muqtadi. Upon the death of Al-Mustazhir, Ismah returned to

Isfahan Isfahan ( fa, اصفهان, Esfahân ), from its Achaemenid empire, ancient designation ''Aspadana'' and, later, ''Spahan'' in Sassanian Empire, middle Persian, rendered in English as ''Ispahan'', is a major city in the Greater Isfahan Regio ...

, where she died, and was buried within the law college that she had founded there on Barracks Market Street. Her husband died in 1118. In the same year her half-brother sultan

also died. After the death of her husband, he was succeeded by

al-Mustarshid Abu Mansur al-Faḍl ibn Ahmad al-Mustazhir ( ar, أبو منصور الفضل بن أحمد المستظهر; 1092 – 29 August 1135) better known by his regnal name Al-Mustarshid Billah ( ar, المسترشد بالله) was the Abbasid calip ...

. He was Al-Mustazhir's son from a concubine Lubanah. She was from Baghdad.

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Sources

* * al-Sāʿī, Ibn; Toorawa, Shawkat M.; Bray, Julia (2017). Women and the Court of Baghdad. Library of Arabic Literature. NYU Press. pp. 62, 65 {{DEFAULTSORT:Ismah Khatun Seljuk dynasty 11th-century Turkic people 12th-century Turkic people Turkic female royalty Wives of Abbasid caliphs

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