List of mothers of the Safavid shahs

This list includes the biological mothers of Safavid shahs. There were eleven shahs (kings) of the Safavid Empire in ten generations. Throughout 235-years history the shahs were all members of the same house, the house of Safavid.

Name (Birth Name) Son Ethnicity Safavid Iran Alam-Shah Begum (Halima, Mart[h]a) Ismail I half Pontic Greek - half TurcomanPeter Charanis. "Review of Emile Janssens' Trébizonde en Colchide", Speculum, Vol. 45, No. 3,, (Jul., 1970), p. 476 Tajlu Khanum (Shah-Begi Khanum) Tahmasp I TurcomanWomen in Iran: From the Rise of Islam to 1800 ed. Nashat and Beck (University of Illinois Press, 2003) p.145 Sultanum Begum Ismail II and Mohammad Khodabanda Turcoman Khayr al-Nisa Begum Abbas I Mazanderani Dilaram Khanum Shah Safi GeorgianSussan Babaie and others: Slaves of the Shah (I.B. Tauris, 2003) p.104 Anna Khanum Abbas II CircassianAndrew J. Newman Safavid Iran (I.B.Tauris) p.81 Nakihat Khanum Suleiman I of Persia Circassian Unknown Sultan Husayn Circassian After the Siege of Isfahan Unknown Tahmasp II Unknown Shahpari Begum Abbas III Unknown After Nader Shah Shahrbanu Begum Suleiman II Unknown Khan Aqa Begum or Maryam Begum Ismail III Unknown

See also Safavid dynasty family tree

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