Åžah Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: شاه سلطان, "sovereign"; c. 1500 – c. 1572), also called Åžahıhuban ("sovereign of the good/good sovereign"), Åžahi or Devlet Åžah Sultan ("sovereign of the reign"), was an Ottoman princess, daughter of Sultan Selim I, and half-sister of Suleiman the Magnificent. She was a prominent figure during her brother's reign
The identity of her mother is unknown. Although some historians refer to her mother as AyÅŸe Hatun, Selim's secondary consort, the palace records never mention her mother's name, and she is only referred to as "Mother of Åžah Sultan".
She was raised in Manisa and married in 1523 to the future Grand Vizier and Sufic Lütfi Pasha.
Her husband became Grand Vizier in 1539, and she wielded great power in Istanbul. The couple had at least one daughter named Esmehan Sultan.
In 1541, she divorced by her husband, and he was also deposed from his position. The divorce took place on her initiative, allegedly because of her husband's punishment of a woman for adultery. Lütfi Pasha ordered the cutting of an extremity of an adultress and this led to a dispute between the Pasha and Şah Sultan. As the argument got heated, Lütfi Pasha gave Şah Sultan a beating. Following the incident, Şah Sultan got the Pasha beaten by her servants complained to her brother, Sultan Suleiman, and requested a divorce. This led to the deposition of Lütfi Pasha from his position as the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire. Perhaps she later remarried to Merkez Efendi.
She had the Şah Sultan Mosque built in 1556. Later, she built a school in Silivrikapı. She also dedicated her lands which were assigned to her by her brother Suleiman the Magnificent. She died in 1572 and was buried in her own turbe, inside Yavuz Selim Mosque.
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