Although Ayşe Hafsa Sultan’s year of birth is known, historians - TopicsExpress



          

Although Ayşe Hafsa Sultan’s year of birth is known, historians debate that she was the daughter of Meñli I Giray of the Crimean Khanate. According to an alternative theory, the daughter of Meñli I Giray of the Crimean Khanate was another consort of Selim I known as Ayşe Hatun, consequently the stepmother of Suleiman the Magnificent. The Ottoman inscription (vakfiye) describes her as Hātun binti Abd-ul-Muin (Daughter of Abd-ul-Muin), which means that her father was possibly a Greek convert to Islam. The reason behind calling her Hafsa was that she was from Havsa, a district of Edirne Province of Turkey.
Posted on: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 21:22:51 +0000

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