Jeshm Afet Hanimefendi

Jeshm Afet Hanimefendi
Third Princess of Egypt
Born c.1830
Circassia
Died 11 November 1907 (age:77)
Egypt
Burial Khedival Mausoleum, Al-Rifa'i Mosque, Cairo, Egypt
Spouse Isma'il Pasha
Issue Melek Tourhan (adoptive)
Full name
Jeshm Afet
House House of Muhammad Ali
Religion Orthodox Christian at birth, converted to Islam after her capture

Jeshm Afet Hanimefendi (Arabic: جشم آفت هانم افندى‎‎)(Turkish: Çeşm İfet Hanımefendi) was the third wife of Khedive Isma'il Pasha of Egypt.

Biography

Jesh Afet Hanimefendi was born in Circassia in 1830.She was captured during one of the raids and sold into slavery.She arrived in the Harem of Isma'il Pasha as a concubine.However,Ismai'l Pasha freed her and married her legally in 1863, the same year he ascended the throne, and she was given the title of the Third Princess. Al-Tahtawi’s book on the education of women, titled al-Murshid al-Amin lil Banat wa al-Banin (the faithful guide for girls and boys) published in 1873, was commissioned by Khedive Ismail after Jeshm Afet Hanim, used her own money to establish the first general public school for girls at al-Suyufiya in 1873, which claimed additional fame to her.[1]

Jeshm Afet Hanimefendi and her female orchestra, circa 1872.
The tomb of Jeshm Afet Hanimefendi

The genealogy of the dynasty revealed that Jeshm Afet had no children of her own, [2] which might explain her interest in the education of young girls. Hasan Tourhan Pasha, a captain in the Ottoman Navy offered an adoption of his daughter Melek, in order to improve her lot in life. Melek was adopted by Jeshm Afet, during the 1870s. While they lost touch with each other following the exile of Khedive Ismail, when Melek Hanim became the second wife of Prince Husein Kamel in 1887 returning to Egypt with him, she resumed her acquaintance and a relationship with Aisha Taymur. There was no doubt that the relationship between Jeshm Afet Hanim and Taymur was shaped by their mutual interest in women's education and poetry that reflected the changing interests and concerns of some royal and upper-class women beyond mothering and feminine crafts.[1]

Jeshm Afet Hanimefendi died on 11 November 1907,[3] and was buried at the Khedival Mausoleum, Al-Rifa'i Mosque, Cairo, Egypt.[4]

Titles and styles

References

  1. 1 2 Mervat F. Hatem (12 April 2011). Literature, Gender, and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Egypt: The Life and Works of `A'isha Taymur. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 2, 198. ISBN 978-0-230-11860-7.
  2. ↑ Hassan, Hassan (2000). In the House of Muhammad Ali: A Family Album, 1805–1952. American University in Cairo Press. ISBN 978-977-424-554-1. OCLC 45016821.
  3. ↑ http://www.geocities.ws/hazemsakr/royal/ismail.html His Highness Hidiv Ismail Paşa Hidiv of Misir (Egypt), Sudan and Taşoz
  4. ↑ http://amorbidfascination.blogspot.com/2010/05/royal-tombs-rifai-mosque-cairo-egypt.html Royal Tombs, Rifa'i Mosque, Cairo, Egypt

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