Ismihan Sultan
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Ismihan Sultan was an Ottoman princess, daughter of Sultan Selim II and of his favorite concubine, Haseki Sultan and legal wife Nurbanu Sultan. She was the granddaughter of Suleiman the Magnificent an
Opening pages from the Qur'an probably meant for the Selim I (1512–1520), perhaps to celebrate his conquest of Mamluk Egypt and Syria in 1517. Seventy years later this luxurious manuscript was dedicated to the mausoleum of her father, Selim II (1566–1574), by great-granddaughter of Selim I, Ismihan Sultan. Dated September 1517. Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum
Selim II
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Selim II, also known as Selim the Blond or Selim the Drunkard, was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1566 until his death in 1574.
Ismihan Sultan
…Ismihan Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: اسمیخان سلطان; also Esmehan Sultan; 1545 – 8 August 1585) was an Ottoman princess, daughter of Sultan Selim II (reign 1566–74) and of his favorite concubine, Haseki Sultan and legal wife Nurbanu Sultan. She was the granddaughter of Suleiman the Magnificent (reign…
Portrait of Sultan Selim II, produced in the workshop of Paolo Veronese, late 16th century.
Equestrian portrait of Prince Selim riding between Kotahia and Belgrade to rejoin the Imperial Army in early 1566 Siege of Szigetvár. His father would die, and Prince Selim would become "Sultan Selim II" later that year. Nüzhet (TSMK H.1339, 1569).
Sultan Selim writing a letter in 1566. Nüzhet (1568–69).
Selim ascends the throne. Nüzhet-i Esrâr (1568–69)