ota, زبیدہ سلطان , house = Ottoman , house-type = Dynasty , father =

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, mother = Emine Musli KadınCalled also Muslıhe, Muslu or Musalli , birth_date = 28 March 1728 , birth_place = Topkapı Palace, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(present day Istanbul, Turkey) , death_date = , death_place = Istanbul, Ottoman Empire , burial_place = Imperial Ladies Mausoleum, Yeni Mosque, Eminönü, Istanbul , religion =

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Zübeyde Sultan ( ota, زبیدہ سلطان; "''creamed body''" or "''prime''"; 28 March 1728 – 4 June 1756) was an Ottoman princess, daughter of

Sultan Sultan (; ar, سلطان ', ) is a position with several historical meanings. Originally, it was an Arabic abstract noun meaning "strength", "authority", "rulership", derived from the verbal noun ', meaning "authority" or "power". Later, it ...

(reign 1703 – 1730) and his consort Musli Kadın. She was the half-sister of Sultans

Mustafa III Mustafa III (; ''Muṣṭafā-yi sālis''; 28 January 1717 – 21 January 1774) was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1757 to 1774. He was a son of Sultan Ahmed III (1703–30), and his consort Mihrişah Kadın. He was succeeded by his ...

(reign 1757 – 1774) and Abdul Hamid I (reign 1774 – 1789) of the Ottoman Empire.

Life

Zübeyde Sultan was born on 28 or 29 March 1728. Her father was Sultan

, and her mother was Emine Musli Kadın (called also Muslıhe, Muslu or Musalli). She had a full elder sister named Ayşe Sultan. Her father having been dethroned in 1730, she grew up at the Old Palace but was able to live in comfort, as he had had the farmstead of Dilsiz Mehmed Ağa, situated near Edirne, and thus its incomes, allocated to her. Her cousin

Mahmud I Mahmud I ( ota, محمود اول, tr, I. Mahmud, 2 August 1696 13 December 1754), known as Mahmud the Hunchback, was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1730 to 1754. He took over the throne after the Patrona Halil rebellion and he kept goo ...

had a ''yalı'', or waterfront manse, built for her at the precincts of

Eyüp Eyüp () or Eyüpsultan is a district of the city of Istanbul, Turkey. The district extends from the Golden Horn all the way to the shore of the Black Sea. Eyüp is also the name of a prominent neighborhood and former village in the district, lo ...

in around August 1747. On 6 January 1748, during Mahmud's reign, Zübeyde was married firstly to Süleyman Pasha,

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(governor – general) of Anatolia and Vizier, who, though, died soon after, some six months into the marriage. Thus, she was married secondly, within the year, on 6 January 1749, to Numan Pasha, ''kapıcılar kethüdası'', or head of the Imperial Palace Guards, Sanjak-Bey (provincial governor) of Thessaloniki and Kavala, and Vizier. Her husband would go on to serve in various other provincial posts, while Zübeyde continued to live at her house in Edirne. She had no know children. Turkish historian Mustafa Çağatay Uluçay describes the princess as a “philanthropist, protector of the poor, who read day and night”.

Death

Zübeyde Sultan died of natural causes at the age of twenty-eight, on 4 June 1756. She was entombed in the Imperial Ladies Mausoleum, located at Yeni Mosque, Istanbul.

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