Fatima Soltan ( Volga Türki and

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: فاطمه سلطان; died 1681) was a sovereign ''khanbika'' (queen) and the last ruler of the

Qasim Khanate The Qasim Khanate (also called ''Qasimov'', ''Kasimov'', or ''Kasim''), also known as the Tsardom of Kasimov (), was a Tatar-ruled khanate which existed from 1452 until 1681 on the territory of the Russian state. It was located within modern-da ...

from 1679 until 1681.

Reign

She was a daughter of Agha Muhammad Shah Quli Sayyid and a wife of

Arslanghali Arslanghali Khan ( Volga Türki and Persian: ارسلان ابن علی خان; died 1627) was a khan of the Qasim Khanate from 1614 to 1627, and a son of Ghali khan and a grandson of Kuchum. In 1598 he was captured by the Russians during Kuchum ...

Khan. After the death of her husband in 1627, Russian tsar

Mikhail Romanov Michael I (; ) was Tsar of all Russia from 1613 after being elected by the Zemsky Sobor of 1613 until his death in 1645. He was elected by the Zemsky Sobor and was the first tsar of the House of Romanov, which succeeded the House of Rurik. ...

appointed her and her father Agha Muhammad as regents of her three-year-old son

Sayed Borhan Sayed Borhan Khan ( Volga Türki and Persian: سید برهان خان; – ) was Khan of the Qasim Khanate from 1627 to 1679. Reign He was a son of Arslanghali and Fatima Soltan. After the death of his father, he was crowned as the khan ...

. Until Borhan abdicated in 1679, Fatima Soltan resisted his marriage to a Russian princess and the policy of Christianization and discrimination against Muslims by the authorities in Moscow. After Borhan abdicated, she remained briefly in power as the last queen of the Khanate. The Qasim Khanate was abolished after her death.

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* People from the Qasim Khanate Year of birth missing 1681 deaths 17th-century monarchs in Europe 17th-century women monarchs {{Russia-bio-stub