This list includes the biological mothers of Safavid shahs. There were eleven shahs (kings) of the Safavid Empire in ten generations. Throughout 235-years history the shahs were all members of the same house, the house of Safavid.
Name (Birth Name)
Son
Ethnicity
Safavid Iran
Alam-Shah Begum (Halima, Mart[h]a)
Ismail I
half Pontic Greek - half Turcoman[1]
Tajlu Khanum (Shah-Begi Khanum)
Tahmasp I
Turcoman[2]
Sultanum Begum
Ismail II and Mohammad Khodabanda
Turcoman
Khayr al-Nisa Begum
Abbas I
Mazanderani
Dilaram Khanum
Shah Safi
Georgian[3]
Anna Khanum
Abbas II
Circassian[4]
Nakihat Khanum
Suleiman I of Persia
Circassian[5]
Unknown
Sultan Husayn
Circassian[6]
After the Siege of Isfahan
Unknown
Tahmasp II
Unknown
Unknown
Abbas III
Unknown
After Nader Shah
Shahrbanu Begum[7]
Suleiman II
Unknown
Khan Aqa Begum or Maryam Begum[7]
Ismail III
Unknown
^Peter Charanis. "Review of Emile Janssens' Trébizonde en Colchide", Speculum, Vol. 45, No. 3,, (Jul., 1970), p. 476
^Women in Iran: From the Rise of Islam to 1800 ed. Nashat and Beck (University of Illinois Press, 2003) p.145
^Sussan Babaie and others: Slaves of the Shah (I.B. Tauris, 2003) p.104
^Andrew J. Newman Safavid Iran (I.B.Tauris) p.81
^Newman 2008, pp. 55, 93, 100.
^Matthee 2012.
^ abKissling, H. J.; Spuler, Bertold; Barbour, N.; Trimingham, J. S.; Braun, H.; Hartel, H. (August 1, 1997). The Last Great Muslim Empires. BRILL. p. 210. ISBN 978-9-004-02104-4.
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