Friday, August 25, 2017

Jan Agha Khanum Bayandur-Turkman (Iskandar Beg Munshi, [1629] (1978)

Jan Aqa Ḵanom




Jan Aqa Ḵanom, the daughter of Morad Beg Bayandor Torkman, and the wife of the late Aliqoli Khan Shamlu, the grandson of Durmish Khan. When Aliqoli Khan Shamlu was governor-general at Herat and guardian of the infant prince Abbas, Jan Aqa Ḵanom looked after the latter, and cared for the prince for more years than any of the other women of the harem. As a result, she was given the distinguished title of nana, or mother, and became the doyenne of the royal harem and the object of the Shah’s special favor. She died this year as the court was leaving its winter quarters in Mazandaran, and the Shah had her body taken to Karbala for burial.



Eskandar Beg Monshi, Tārikh-e ʿĀlamārā-ye ʿAbbāsi, tr. R. M. Savory as History of Shah ʿAbbâs the Great, 2 vols., Boulder, Colorado, 1978, p. 1231.

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