Dilfirib Kadın

In this Ottoman Turkish style name, the given name is Dilfirib, the title is Kadın, and there is no family name.

Dilfirib Kadın
Born	c. 1890 Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Died	c. 1952 (aged 61–62) Erenköy, Kadıköy, Istanbul, Turkey
Burial	Istanbul, Turkey
Spouse	Mehmed V Second husband
Issue	Second marriage Fülan Bey
Names Turkish: Dilfirib Kadın Ottoman Turkish: دل فریب قادین
House	Ottoman (by marriage)
Religion	Sunni Islam

Dilfirib Kadın (Ottoman Turkish: دل فریب قادین, "deceitful heart"; c. 1890 – c. 1952) was the fifth and last consort of Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire.[1]

Life

Dilfirib Kadın was born c. 1890 in Istanbul. She was Circassian.[2] She married Mehmed in 1907 as his fifth consort.[1] She remained childless.[2] On 27 April 1909, after Mehmed's accession to the throne,[3] she was given the title of "Senior Ikbal".[4] She was later elevated the title of "Fourth Kadın" when Dürriaden Kadın died in October 1909.[5] Safiye Ünüvar, a teacher at the Palace School, who met her in 1915, described her being young and well educated. Safiye Ünüvar wrote that she was friends with her and that their friendship continued until her death.[6][7]

On 30 May 1918, Dilfirib met with the Empress Zita of Bourbon-Parma in the harem of Yıldız Palace, when the latter visited Istanbul with her husband Emperor Charles I of Austria. With her beauty, she won the Empress's appreciation.[8]

Dilfirib and Nazperver Kadın, Mehmed's fourth wife were with him,[9][10] when he died on 3 July 1918.[11] After the sultan's death, she remained in the Yıldız Palace. When the imperial family went into exile in 1924, she moved into her villa located in Erenköy and she remarried with a Bey doctor, with whom she had a son. She died in 1952 because of cancer.[1][2]

See also

• Kadın (title)
• Ottoman Imperial Harem
• List of consorts of the Ottoman sultans

References

1. Uluçay 2011, p. 261.
2. Brookes 2010, p. 280.
3. Faroqhi, Suraiya (2008). The Cambridge History of Turkey. Cambridge University Press. p. 79. ISBN 978-0-521-62096-3.
4. Çavdar, Döndü (2015). Tanzimat'tan Cumhuriyet'e Mefruşat-ı Hümayun İdaresi (PhD Thesis). Selçuk University Institute of Social Sciences. p. 200.
5. Toplumsal tarih, Issues 109-114. Türkiye Ekonomik ve Toplumsal Tarih Vakfı. 2003.
6. Brookes 2010, p. 210.
7. Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 704.
8. Açba, Leyla (2004). Bir Çerkes prensesinin harem hatıraları. L & M. p. 58. ISBN 978-9-756-49131-7.
9. Brookes 2010, p. 262.
10. Toplumsal tarih, Issues 109-114. Türkiye Ekonomik ve Toplumsal Tarih Vakfı. 2003.
11. Tucker, Spencer C. (October 28, 2014). World War I: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection [5 volumes]: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection. ABC-CLIO. p. 1071. ISBN 978-1-851-09965-8.

Sources

• Brookes, Douglas Scott (2010). The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher: Voices from the Ottoman Harem. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-78335-5.
• Sakaoğlu, Necdet (2008). Bu mülkün kadın sultanları: Vâlide sultanlar, hâtunlar, hasekiler, kadınefendiler, sultanefendiler. Oğlak Yayıncılık. ISBN 978-9-753-29623-6.
• Uluçay, Mustafa Çağatay (2011). Padişahların kadınları ve kızları. Ankara: Ötüken. ISBN 978-9-754-37840-5.