Contact Admin. Hurrem Sultan Turkish pronunciation: She became one of the most powerful and influential women in Ottoman history and a prominent and controversial figure during the era known as the Sultanate of Women. She achieved power and influenced the politics of the Ottoman Empire through her husband and played an active role in the state affairs of the Empire.
Hurrem's birth name is unknown. Peirce has written that it may have been either Anastasia , or Aleksandra Lisowska. The Tatars may have first taken her to the Crimean city of Kaffa , a major centre of the Ottoman slave trade , before she was taken to Istanbul.
Shaykh Qutb al-Din al-Nahrawali, a Meccan religious figure, who visited Istanbul in late , noted in his memoirs that Hurrem Sultan was allegedly of Russian nationality. She was presented to Suleiman when he was still a prince. Roxelana, called Hurrem Sultan, probably entered the harem around fifteen years of age. The precise year that she entered the harem is unknown, but scholars believe that she became Suleiman's concubine around the time he became sultan in Her joyful spirit and playful temperament earned her a new name, Hurrem, from Persian Khorram , "the cheerful one".
In the Istanbul harem , Hurrem became a rival to Mahidevran and her influence over the Sultan soon became legendary. Hurrem was allowed to give birth to more than one son which was a stark violation of the old imperial harem principle, "one concubine mother — one son," which was designed to prevent both the mother's influence over the sultan and the feuds of the blood brothers for the throne. Hurrem gave birth to her first son Mehmed in he died in and then to four more sons, destroying Mahidevran's status as the mother of the sultan's only son.
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