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Ayşe Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: عایشه سلطان, "the living one" or "womanly"; died c. 1640) was a consort of Sultan Osman II of the Ottoman Empire.

Life

Her name appears in privy purse registers from 1619 on, but nothing is known about her except her name. Her origin is unknown, but the consorts of the Ottoman sultans were by custom normally concubines who came to the Ottoman Imperial harem via the Ottoman slave trade.

According to Peirce, Ayşe was Osman's haseki sultan. But according to Piterberg, Osman II did not have a haseki and Ayşe was just "a politically insignificant consort." Even though her status was debatable, it is clear that Ayşe could not become a prominent female figure like other haseki sultans, so much so that, during his reign, Osman II favored other concubines over her, for example Meylişah Hatun, who bore him his firstborn, Şehzade Ömer. Also, a governess (daye hatun, lit. wet-nurse) who was appointed as a stand-in valide, could not counterbalance the contriving of Mustafa I's mother in the Old Palace. This condition made the conspious absence of a female power basis in the harem during her spouse's reign, the basic and exceptional weakness from which Osman II suffered.

After Osman's death in 1622 she stayed in the Old Palace. Privy Purse records her presence lastly in 1640.

References

1. ^ Peirce 1993, p. 106.
2. Gabriel Piterberg (2003). An Ottoman Tragedy: History and Historiography at Play. University of California Press. pp. 18–19. ISBN 978-0-520-93005-6.
3. ^ Uluçay 2011, p. 88.
4. ^ Peirce 1993, p. 311.
5. Peirce, Leslie (1993). The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-508677-5.
6. Piterberg, Gabriel (2003). An Ottoman Tragedy: History and Historiography at Play. California: University of California Press. p. 18. ISBN 0-520-23836-2.

Sources

• Peirce, Leslie P. (1993). The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-508677-5.
• Uluçay, M. Çağatay (2011). Padişahların Kadınları ve Kızları. Ötüken Neşriyat.

v t e Ottoman Dynasty
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Sultans / Caliphs	Osman I Orhan Murad I Bayezid I Interregnum Mehmed I Murad II Mehmed II Bayezid II Selim I Suleiman I Selim II Murad III Mehmed III Ahmed I Mustafa I Osman II Murad IV Ibrahim Mehmed IV Suleiman II Ahmed II Mustafa II Ahmed III Mahmud I Osman III Mustafa III Abdul Hamid I Selim III Mustafa IV Mahmud II Abdulmejid I Abdulaziz Murad V Abdul Hamid II Mehmed V Mehmed VI Abdulmejid II (Caliph only)
Claimants	Savcı Bey Süleyman Çelebi İsa Çelebi Musa Çelebi Mustafa Çelebi Küçük Mustafa Sultan Cem Şehzade Ahmet Şehzade Korkut Şehzade Mustafa Şehzade Bayezid Sultan Yahya Abdulmejid II Ahmed Nihad Osmanoğlu Osman Fuad Osmanoğlu Mehmed Abdülaziz Osmanoğlu Ali Vâsıb Osmanoğlu Mehmed Orhan Osmanoğlu Ertuğrul Osman Osmanoğlu Osman Bayezid Osmanoğlu Dündar Ali Osmanoğlu
Valide sultans	Nilüfer Hatun Devlet Hatun Hüma Hatun Gülbahar Hatun Hafsa Sultan Nurbanu Sultan Safiye Sultan Handan Sultan Halime Sultan Kösem Sultan Turhan Sultan Aşub Sultan Gülnuş Sultan Saliha Sultan Şehsuvar Sultan Mihrişah Sultan Sineperver Sultan Nakşidil Sultan Bezmiâlem Sultan Pertevniyal Sultan Şevkefza Kadın Perestu Kadın
Haseki Sultans	Hürrem Sultan Nurbanu Sultan Safiye Sultan Kösem Sultan Ayşe Sultan Ayşe Sultan Turhan Sultan Muazzez Sultan Aşub Sultan Hümaşah Sultan Şivekar Sultan Gülnuş Sultan Rabia Sultan

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