Khadija Arslan Khatun

Khadija Arslan Khatun
خدیجہ ارسلان خاتون
Consort of the Abbasid caliph
Tenure1056 – 2 April 1075
DiedYazd, Iran
Burial
Yazd
Spouse
Names
Khadija Arslan Khatun Dawud Chaghri Beg
Era name and dates
Later Abbasid era: 11th century
DynastySeljuk
FatherDawud Chaghri Beg
ReligionSunni Islam

Khadija Arslan Khatun (Persian: خدیجہ ارسلان خاتون) was a Seljuk princess, sister of sultan Alp Arslan (r.1063–1072) and Aunt of sultan Malik Shah (r. 1072–1092). She was a royal consort of Abbasid caliph Al-Qaim (r. 1031–1075), and then a consort of Kakuyid ruler Ali ibn Faramurz (r. 1070–1095).

She was the daughter of Chaghri Beg, co-ruler of Seljuk dynasty, and sister of Alp Arslan.[1][2]

She married the Abbasid Caliph Al-Qaim[1] in 1056 AD[3] and their marriage contract was read by an officiant named Rais al-Rusa.[4]

Her uncle, Tughril, requested her husband to give his daughter, Sayidah, in marriage to him but her uncle died before her husband could make a decision.[5][4] According to some scholars, her husband declined the proposal of her uncle upon which her uncle requested her husband to send Khatun back and she was sent back to her father's house.[1][6] She complained about the complete abandonment of her husband to her uncle upon which he took her on a trip from Baghdad to the uplands (most probably Baneh) in order to cheer her up.[7]

Upon the death of her husband in 1075, she married Ali ibn Faramurz, ruler of the Kakuyids dynasty.[8][9] As the queen of the Kakuyids dynasty, she used to conduct two communal meals every day, one for nobility and another for the general public,[10] undertook many charitable and pious works and commissioned the construction of a mosque and minaret at Durda in Yazd.[11]

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  3. ^ Bosworth, C. E. (1970). "Dailamīs in Central Iran: The Kākūyids of Jibāl and Yazd". Iran. 8 (1): 73–95 [p. 86]. doi:10.2307/4299634. JSTOR 4299634.
  4. ^ a b Pakistan Political Science Review. Vol. 1. Original from The University of Michigan. Department of Political Science, University of Karachi. 1991. p. 41.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  5. ^ El-Hibri, Tayeb (2021). The Abbasid Caliphate: A History. Cambridge University Press. p. 210. ISBN 978-1107183247.
  6. ^ ʻIzz al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad Ibn al-AT̲īr, ʻIzz al-Dīn Ibn al-Athīr, ʿIzz-ad-Dīn Abu-'l-Ḥasan ʿAlī Ibn-al-Aṯīr, `Alī ibn Muḥammad Ibn al-Athīr, Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī b. Muḥammad Ibn al-At̲īr, ʿIzz al-Dīn Abū al-Hasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm Ibn al-Aṯīr (2002). The Annals of the Saljuq Turks: Selections from Al-Kāmil Fīʻl-Taʻrīkh of ʻIzz Al-Dīn Ibn Al-Athīr. Translated by Sidney Richards, Donald. Psychology Press. pp. 137–139. ISBN 0700715762.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  7. ^ ʻIzz al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad Ibn al-AT̲īr, ʻIzz al-Dīn Ibn al-Athīr, ʿIzz-ad-Dīn Abu-'l-Ḥasan ʿAlī Ibn-al-Aṯīr, `Alī ibn Muḥammad Ibn al-Athīr, Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī b. Muḥammad Ibn al-At̲īr, ʿIzz al-Dīn Abū al-Hasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm Ibn al-Aṯīr (2002). The Annals of the Saljuq Turks: Selections from Al-Kāmil Fīʻl-Taʻrīkh of ʻIzz Al-Dīn Ibn Al-Athīr. Translated by Sidney Richards, Donald. Psychology Press. p. 142. ISBN 0700715762.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  8. ^ Lambton, Ann (1988). Continuity and Change in Medieval Persia. London: SUNY Press. ISBN 0887061338.
  9. ^ Bosworth, C. Edmund (1985). "ALĪ B. FARĀMARZ". Encyclopedia Iranica. pp. 848–849.
  10. ^ Singer, Amy (2012). Constructing Ottoman Beneficence: An Imperial Soup Kitchen in Jerusalem. SUNY Press. p. 87. ISBN 978-0791488768.
  11. ^ Blair, Sheila (1992). The Monumental Inscriptions from Early Islamic Iran and Transoxiana. BRILL. p. 7. ISBN 9004093672.