Zeynab Ilhamy

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Zeynab Ilhamy
Born(1859-12-29)29 December 1859
Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Died17 May 1918(1918-05-17) (aged 58)
Cairo, Egypt
Burial
Hosh al-Basha, Imam al-Shafi'i, Cairo, Egypt
Spouse
Mahmud Hamdi Pasha
(m. 1878)
IssueMunira Hamdi
HouseMuhammad Ali
FatherIbrahim Ilhami Pasha
MotherJeshmi Ahu Qadin
ReligionSunni Islam

Zeynab Ilhamy (Arabic: زينب إلهامي; Turkish: Zeynep Ilhami; 29 December 1859 – 17 May 1918) was an Egyptian princess and a member of the Muhammad Ali Dynasty and Ottoman dynasty.

Life[edit]

Princess Zeynab Ilhamy was born on 29 December 1859 in Istanbul. She was the second daughter of Lieutenant General Prince Ibrahim Ilhami Pasha.[1] and Jeshmi Ahu Qadin (died 1905).[2] She was the granddaughter of Khedive Abbas I and Mahivech Hanim.[3] She had two sisters,[4] Princess Emina Ilhamy[3] and Princess Tevhide Ilhamy.[5]

In 1878, Zeynab married her father's cousin Prince Mahmud Hamdi Pasha fifth son of Isma'il Pasha and Jahan Shah Qadin.[3][6][7] The couple had one daughter, who was named Princess Munira Hamdi, born in 1884. The two divorced in 1888.[2]

Death[edit]

Zeynab died at Cairo on 17 May 1918, and was buried Hosh al-Basha, Imam al-Shafi'i, Cairo.

Issue[edit]

Zeynab and Mahmud Hamdi had one daughter:

Ancestry[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Houtsma, Martijn Theodoor (1993). E. J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam: 1913–1936. Brill Publishers. p. 1118. ISBN 978-9-00-409796-4.
  2. ^ a b Catalogue of the Abbas Hilmi II Papers. Durham University Library. 2020. p. 333.
  3. ^ a b c Doumani, Beshara (February 1, 2012). Family History in the Middle East: Household, Property, and Gender. SUNY Press. pp. 261, 270. ISBN 978-0-791-48707-5.
  4. ^ Malortie, Karl Von (1882). Egypt: Native Rulers and Foreign Interference. W. Ridgway. pp. 300–301.
  5. ^ İstanbul su külliyâtı: Vakıf su defterleri: Bogazici ve Taksim sulari 2 (1813-1928). 1997. p. 83. ISBN 978-9-758-21504-1.
  6. ^ Cuno, Kenneth M. (April 1, 2015). Modernizing Marriage: Family, Ideology, and Law in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Egypt. Syracuse University Press. p. 37. ISBN 978-0-815-65316-5.
  7. ^ Tugay, Emine Foat (1963). Three Centuries: Family Chronicles of Turkey and Egypt. Oxford University Press. p. 100.