Bamba Qadin

Bamba Qadin
Walida Pasha of Egypt
Tenure10 November 1848 – 13 July 1854
PredecessorTitle created
SuccessorHoshiyar Qadin
BornEgypt or Ottoman Empire
Died1871
Ataba al-Khadra Palace, Cairo, Egypt
Burial
Qubbat Afandina, Khedive Tawfik Mausoleum, Kait Bey, Cairo, Egypt
SpouseTusun Pasha
IssueAbbas I of Egypt
HouseMuhammad Ali (by marriage)
ReligionSunni Islam

Bamba Qadin (Arabic: بامبا قادین; Turkish: Pembe Kadın; died 1871; name meaning "Pink")[1] was an Egyptian princess, and a member of the Muhammad Ali Dynasty.[2] She was the wife of Tusun Pasha (1794–1816) the second son of Muhammad Ali Pasha and the Walida Pasha to their son Abbas Hilmi Pasha (1812–1854).[3] According to the family documents of Rukiye Kuneralp, Bamba may have been a daughter of Mehmed Arif Bey, and sister of Fatma Zehra Hanım, wife of Muhammad Ali Pasha's son, Isma'il Pasha.[4]

Bamba married Tusun Pasha, and gave birth to Abbas Hilmi Pasha on 1 July 1812.[5] When Tusun died of plague at the age of twenty three in 1816, her mother-in-law Amina Hanim, took her and her son, to live with her, and refused to be parted from him.[6]

The Sibil Kuttab Umm Abbas at Saliba Street in Cairo was built in her honor.[7]

She died in 1871 in Ataba al-Khadra Palace, Cairo, and was buried in Qubbat Afandina, Khedive Tewfik Pasha Mausoleum, in Afifi zone.[8][9][10]

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  3. ^ Anon (20 July 2009). "14-Mohamed Ali's Dynasty". Egypt: State Information Service. Archived from the original on 10 September 2014. Retrieved 10 September 2014.
  4. ^ Bouquet, Olivier (2011). "Lire Entre Les Tombes: Une Grande Famille De Morts, Les Halil Hamid Pacha-zâde (1785-1918)". Turcica (in French). 43: 512 n. 179. doi:10.2143/TURC.43.0.2174078. Retrieved 2021-02-13.
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  6. ^ Tugay, Emine Foat (1963). Three Centuries: Family Chronicles of Turkey and Egypt. Oxford University Press. pp. 115–16.
  7. ^ Kadi, Galila El; Bonnamy, Alain (May 24, 2007). Architecture for the Dead : Cairo's Medieval Necropolis. American Univ in Cairo Press. ISBN 9789774160745. Retrieved May 24, 2019 – via Google Books.
  8. ^ "21. Mausleum of Khedive Tawfiq".
  9. ^ Williams, Caroline (2008). Islamic Monuments in Cairo: The Practical Guide. American Univ in Cairo Press. p. 247. ISBN 978-9-774-16205-3.
  10. ^ El Kadi, Galila; Bonnamy, Alain (2007). Architecture for the Dead : Cairo's Medieval Necropolis. American Univ in Cairo Press. p. 199. ISBN 978-9-774-16074-5.