Tenure 1845 - 25 June 1861 Father Hişam Bey Religion Sunni Islam Children Sabiha Sultan | Burial Yahya Efendi Cemetery Mother Malika Hanım Spouse Abdulmejid I Parents Malika Hanım, Hişam Bey | |
Issue Sabiha Sultan
Şehzade Ahmed Nureddin
Zekiye Sultan
Fehime Sultan Died 1888, Yıldız Palace, Istanbul, Turkey House Ottoman dynasty (by marriage) Similar Abdulmejid I, Perestu Kadın, Abdul Hamid II, Mehmet Selim Efendi, Şehzade Mehmed Abid | ||
Mahitab Kadın (c. 1830 – c. 1888) was the principal consort of Sultan Abdülmecid I of the Ottoman Empire.
Biography
Mahitab Kadın was born in 1830 to a Circasssian notable, Hişam Bey and his wife Malika Hanım. Her real name was Nuriye. At a very young age she along with her sisters and brothers was taken from Russia to Istanbul, where she was delivered at the court of the Ottoman Sultan. She was one of the rare Chechen girls to have entered the palace.
Şevknihak Hanım, who was the Hazinedar Usta in the harem of Abdülmecid I, was the sister of her father, Hişam Bey and subsequently the aunt of Mehtab Kadın Efendi. Her brothers were brought up out of the palace by Ali'ebru Hanım. In the palace Mehtab was given private education. However, soon the Sultan Abdülmecid took notice of Mehtab and they married in 1845.
Three years after the marriage she gave birth to Sabiha Sultan and then in 1848 to Şehzade Ahmed Nureddin Efendi. In 1870 she was visited by Şeyh Şamil along with her family. Şeyh Şamil was always supported by Mehtab Kadın Efendi. After 1880 she started residing in the Yıldız Palace, where she was loved and respected by Sultan Abdul Hamid II. She died in 1888 in her mansion located in Yıldız Palace park and was buried in Yahya Efendi cemetery.