Yakhan Begum
Yakhan Begum (Persian: یاکهان بیگم) (also Gilani Yakhan Begum)[1] (b. c. 1586/1587 CE)[2] was a Karkiya princess, who was the daughter of the last Karkiya ruler Khan Ahmad Khan (r. 1538–1592), and the Safavid princess Maryam Begum.[1]
In 1591, the Safavid prince Mohammad Baqer Mirza was engaged to Yakhan Begum, but in the end a marriage did not take place due to the opposition of her father. Mohammad Baqer's father Shah Abbas I (r. 1588–1629) then decided to marry Yakhan Begum in 1602, but she died in the same year.
Sources
[edit]- Newman, Andrew J. (2008). Safavid Iran: Rebirth of a Persian Empire. I.B.Tauris. pp. 1–281. ISBN 9780857716613.
- Kasheff, Manouchehr (2001). "GĪLĀN v. History under the Safavids". Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. X, Fasc. 6. pp. 635–642.
References
[edit]- 1 2 Newman, Andrew J. (2012-04-11). Safavid Iran: Rebirth of a Persian Empire. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-0-85773-366-5.
- ↑ The Genealogist. Association for the Promotion of Scholarship in Genealogy. 1997. p. 247.
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