Khadija Begum, also Khadija Khatun or Khadija Beyim Khatun, was an

Aq Qoyunlu The Aq Qoyunlu or the White Sheep Turkomans (, ; ) was a culturally Persianate society, Persianate,Kaushik Roy, ''Military Transition in Early Modern Asia, 1400–1750'', (Bloomsbury, 2014), 38; "Post-Mongol Persia and Iraq were ruled by two trib ...

princess and the daughter of the Aq Qoyunlu ruler

Ali Aq Qoyunlu Jalal ud-Din Ali ibn Kara Yuluk Osman (), or Mirza Ali Beg () was the sixth ''bey'' of the Turkoman tribal confederation of the Aq Qoyunlu from 1435 to 1438. Life Jalal ud-Din Ali ibn Kara Yuluk Osman was born into the Bayandur tribe of the A ...

and his wife

Sara Khatun Sara Khatun () was an influential woman of the Aq Qoyunlu state, as the political adviser of her son, Uzun Hasan (r. 1457–1478). She was a successful and well-respected diplomatic mediator. Early life According to historian John E. Woods, S ...

, and was the sister of the famous Aq Qoyunlu ruler

Uzun Hasan Uzun Hasan or Uzun Hassan (; February or March 1425 – January 6, 1478) was a ruler of the Turkoman (ethnonym), Turkoman Aq Qoyunlu state and is generally considered to be its strongest ruler. Hasan ruled between 1452 and 1478 and presided ove ...

. Sometime between 1456 and 1459, she married

Shaykh Junayd Shaykh Junayd (died 4 March 1460; ) was the hereditary leader of the Safavid order, a Sufi order based in Ardabil in northwestern Iran. He was the son of Shaykh Ibrahim, grandson of Shaykh Ali Safavi, father of Shaykh Haydar and grandfather o ...

, hereditary leader of the

Safavid order The Safavid order () also called the Safaviyya () was a Kurds, Kurdish Sufism, Sufi order () founded by theNewman, Andrew J., ''Safavid Iran: Rebirth of a Persian Empire'', (I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., 2006), 152. ''Encyclopædia Iranica'' Mysticism, ...

and grandfather of the future founder of the

Safavid Empire The Guarded Domains of Iran, commonly called Safavid Iran, Safavid Persia or the Safavid Empire, was one of the largest and longest-lasting Iranian empires. It was ruled from 1501 to 1736 by the Safavid dynasty. It is often considered the begi ...

Shah Ismail Ismail I (; 17 July 1487 – 23 May 1524) was the founder and first shah of Safavid Iran, ruling from 1501 until his death in 1524. His reign is one of the most vital in the history of Iran, and the Safavid period is often considered the beginn ...

, marking the establishment of a close genealogical connection between the Aq Qoyunlu and the Safavids. They were married before Shaykh Junayd's invasion of

Trebizond Trabzon, historically known as Trebizond, is a city on the Black Sea coast of northeastern Turkey and the capital of Trabzon Province. The city was founded in 756 BC as "Trapezous" by colonists from Miletus. It was added into the Achaemenid Em ...

. Shaykh Junayd would die not long after the marriage, on 4 March 1460, killed in the Battle of Tabasaran. Her son was

Shaykh Haydar Shaykh Haydar or Sheikh Haydar ( ''Shaikh Ḥaidar''; 1459–9 July 1488) was the successor of his father ( Shaykh Junayd) as leader of the Safavid order from 1460 to 1488. Haydar maintained the policies and political ambitions initiated by his f ...

, who himself married an Aq Qoyunlu princess

Alamshah Halime Begum Alamshah Halima Begum (1460–1522) ( Azerbaijani: عالم‌شاه حلیمه بیگم) was a Turkoman Aq Qoyunlu princess. She was the daughter of Uzun Hasan and Teodora Despina Khatun, and the mother of Ismail I. Name There are different ...

, an union out of which was born Shah Ismail.

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