Nevdürr Hanım

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

Nevdürr Hanım
Born	1861 Batumi, Georgia, Caucasus Viceroyalty, Russian Empire
Died	1927(1927-00-00) (aged 65–66) Beşiktaş, Istanbul, Turkey
Spouse	Murad V ​ ​ (m. 1880; died 1904)​
Names Turkish: Nevdürr Hanım Ottoman Turkish: نودر خانم
House	Ottoman (by marriage)
Father	Nakaşvili Rüstem Bey
Religion	Sunni Islam

Nevdürr Hanım[1] (Ottoman Turkish: نودر خانم; 1861 - 1927; meaning "the new shine"[2]) was a consort of Sultan Murad V of the Ottoman Empire.[1]

Life

Nevdürr was born in Batumi in 1861, daughter of Nakaşvili Rüstem Bey. She was Georgian. Nevdürr married Murad in 1880 when he was already a prisoner in the Çırağan Palace.[3] She remained childless.[1] After reigning for three months, Murad was deposed on 30 August 1876,[4] due to mental instability and was imprisoned in the Çırağan Palace. Nevdürr was initially sent to Çırağan Palace as a Kalfa (servant), but Murad liked her and decided to take her as his new consort.[3]

Nevdürr was widowed at Murad's death in 1904, after which her ordeal in the Çırağan Palace came to an end.[5] After the death of her husband, she was sent to Bursa with the consorts Gevherriz Hanım, Remzşinas Hanım and Filizten Hanım for a few years and her salary was cancelled by the Committee of Union and Progress. Afterwards she went to live with her stepdaughter Hatice Sultan, who requested a salary for Nevdürr many times, but it was never accorded. When Hatice Sultan was exiled in 1924, Nevdürr fell in total poverty. She died in 1927 in the Beşiktaş district in Istanbul.[6][1][7][1][6]

In literature

• Nevdürr is a character in Ayşe Osmanoğlu's historical novel The Gilded Cage on the Bosphorus (2020).[8]

See also

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

References

1. Bardakçı 1998, p. 614.
2. A Gyre Thro' the Orient. Republican Book and Job Printing Office. 1869. p. 62.
3. Brookes 2010, p. 64.
4. Williams, Augustus Warner; Gabriel, Mgrditch Simbad (1896). Bleeding Armedia: Its History and Horrors Under the Curse of Islam. Publishers union. p. 214.
5. Brookes 2010, p. 17.
6. Şehsuvaroğlu, Halûk Y. (26 November 1947). "Çırağan Sarayına Dair Bazı Hatıralar". Akşam. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
7. Bardakçı 1998, p. 55.
8. Osmanoğlu, Ayşe (May 30, 2020). The Gilded Cage on the Bosphorus: The Ottomans: The Story of a Family. Ayşe Osmanoğlu. ISBN 978-1-9163614-1-6.

Sources

• Brookes, Douglas Scott (2010). The concubine, the princess, and the teacher: Voices from the Ottoman Harem, based on Filizten's memoir, Twenty-Eight Years in Çırağan Palace: The Life of Murad V. University of Texas Press. ISBN 9780292718425.
• Bardakçı, Murat (1998). Şahbaba: Osmanoğulları'nın son hükümdarı VI. Mehmed Vahideddin'in hayatı, hatıraları, ve özel mektupları. Pan Yayıncılık. ISBN 978-9-757-65275-5.