{{Short description|Seljuk princess and wife of caliph al-Mustazhir}} {{Infobox royalty | name = Ismah Khatun <br> اسماعه خاتون | image = | alt = | caption = | succession = Wife of the Abbasid caliph |reign = 1109 – 1118 |reign-type = Tenure |predecessor = |successor = |birth_date = |birth_place = Isfahan |death_date = after 1119 |death_place = Isfahan |burial_place = Barracks Market of Isfahan | full name = Ismah Khatun Malik Shah. | era name = Later Abbasid era | era dates = 12th century |spouse = Al-Mustazhir |issue = Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Ahmad al-Mustazhir |issue-type = Children |dynasty = Seljuk |father = Malik Shah |mother = |religion = Sunni Islam }} '''Ismah Khatun''' ({{langx|fa|{{Nastaliq|اسماعه خاتون}}}}) ({{langx|ar|عصمة خاتون}}) was a Seljuk princess, daughter of sultan Malik Shah (r. 1072–1092) and principal wife of Abbasid caliph al-Mustazhir (r. 1094–1118).
==Biography== Ismah Khatun was one of the youngest daughters of Seljuk sultan Malik Shah. She was very young when her father died in 1092; he was succeeded by his underage son Mahmud I under the regency of Terken Khatun, who was the regent during his minority in 1092–1094.<ref>Mernissi, Fatima; Mary Jo Lakeland (2003). The forgotten queens of Islam. Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-19-579868-5}}.</ref>
Later, her other brothers, Berkyaruq, Malik-Shah II and Muhammad Tapar also became Sultans. ===Marriage=== She was one of Al-Mustazhir's wives. She was the daughter of Seljuk Sultan Malik-Shah I. Al-Mustazhir married her in Isfahan in 1109.{{sfn|Lambton|1988|p=268}} She later came to Baghdad and took up residence in the Caliphal palace. On 3 February 1112, she gave birth to prince Abu Ishaq Ibrahim, who died of smallpox in October 1114, and was buried in the ''mausoleum of al-Muqtadir'' in Rusafah Cemetery, beside his uncle-cousin Ja'far, son of the caliph al-Muqtadi (father of Mustazhir) and Mah-i Mulk Khatun (half-sister of Ismah). Upon the death of Al-Mustazhir, Ismah returned to Isfahan, where she died, and was buried within the law college that she had founded there on Barracks Market Street.<ref name="al-sai">{{cite book | last1=al-Sāʿī | first1=Ibn | last2=Toorawa | first2=Shawkat M. | last3=Bray | first3=Julia | title=كتاب جهات الأئمة الخلفاء من الحرائر والإماء المسمى نساء الخلفاء: Women and the Court of Baghdad | publisher=NYU Press | series=Library of Arabic Literature | year=2017 | pages=62, 65 | isbn=978-1-4798-6679-3 }}</ref>
Her husband died in 1118. In the same year her half-brother sultan Muhammad Tapar also died.
After the death of her husband, he was succeeded by al-Mustarshid. He was Al-Mustazhir's son from a concubine Lubanah. She was from Baghdad.<ref name="الدكتور 2009">{{cite book | last=الدكتور | first=عبد القادر بوباية ،الأستاذ | title=الاكتفاء في اخبار الخلفاء 1-2 ج2 | publisher=Dar Al Kotob Al Ilmiyah دار الكتب العلمية | series=الاكتفاء في اخبار الخلفاء 1-2 | year=2009 | pages=487, 492}}</ref>
==See also== * Gawhar Khatun ==References== {{Reflist}}
==Sources== * {{cite book | last=Lambton | first=A.K.S. | title=Continuity and Change in Medieval Persia | publisher=Bibliotheca Persica | series=Bibliotheca Persica | year=1988 | isbn=978-0-88706-133-2}} * al-Sāʿī, Ibn; Toorawa, Shawkat M.; Bray, Julia (2017). Women and the Court of Baghdad. Library of Arabic Literature. NYU Press. pp. 62, 65
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