Nevdürr Hanım

Consort of Ottoman Sultan Murad V

Murad V

(m. 1880; died 1904)

Names
Turkish: Nevdürr Hanım Ottoman Turkish: نودر خانم

HouseOttoman (by marriage)FatherNakaşvili Rüstem BeyReligionSunni Islam

Nevdürr Hanım^[1] (Ottoman Turkish: نودر خانم; 1861 - 1927; meaning "the new shine"^[2]) was a consort of Sultan Murad V of the Ottoman Empire.^[1]

Life

Nevdürr was born to Batumi in 1861, daughter of Nakaşvili Rüstem Bey. She was Georgian.

Nevdürr married Murad in 1880 when he was already a prisoner in the Çırağan Palace.^[3] She remained childless.^[1] After reigning for three months, Murad was deposed on 30 August 1876,^[4] due to mental instability and was imprisoned in the Çırağan Palace. Nevdürr was initially sent to Çırağan Palace as Kalfa (servant), but Murad liked her and decided to take her as his new consort.^[3]

Nevdürr was widowed at Murad's death in 1904, after which her ordeal in the Çırağan Palace came to an end.^[5] After the death of her husband, she was sent to Bursa with the consorts Gevherriz Hanım, Remzşinas Hanım and Filizten Hanım for a few years and her salary was canceled by the Committee of Union and Progress. Afterwards she went to live with her step-daughter Hatice Sultan who requested a salary for Nevdürr many times, but it was never accorded. When Hatice Sultan was exiled in 1924, Nevdürr fell in total poverty. She died in 1927 in the Beşiktaş district in Istanbul.^[6]^[1] ^[7] ^[1]^[6]

In literature

Nevdürr is a character in Ayşe Osmanoğlu's historical novel The Gilded Cage on the Bosphorus (2020).^[8]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Bardakçı 1998, p. 614.
^ A Gyre Thro' the Orient. Republican Book and Job Printing Office. 1869. p. 62.
^ ^a ^b Brookes 2010, p. 64.
^ Williams, Augustus Warner; Gabriel, Mgrditch Simbad (1896). Bleeding Armedia: Its History and Horrors Under the Curse of Islam. Publishers union. p. 214.
^ Brookes 2010, p. 17.
^ ^a ^b Şehsuvaroğlu, Halûk Y. (26 November 1947). "Çırağan Sarayına Dair Bazı Hatıralar". Akşam. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
^ Bardakçı 1998, p. 55.
^ Osmanoğlu, Ayşe (May 30, 2020). The Gilded Cage on the Bosphorus: The Ottomans: The Story of a Family. Ayşe Osmanoğlu. ISBN 978-1-9163614-1-6.

Sources

Brookes, Douglas Scott (2010). The concubine, the princess, and the teacher: Voices from the Ottoman Harem, based on Filizten's memoir, Twenty-Eight Years in Çırağan Palace: The Life of Murad V. University of Texas Press. ISBN 9780292718425.
Bardakçı, Murat (1998). Şahbaba: Osmanoğulları'nın son hükümdarı VI. Mehmed Vahideddin'in hayatı, hatıraları, ve özel mektupları. Pan Yayıncılık. ISBN 978-9-757-65275-5.