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Great Women In Islamic History: Ebesh Hatun Of Iran

February 6, 2015 By Dr. Milena Rampoldi Leave a Comment

Ebesh Hatun (also known as Abish Hatun) was a Turkish woman renowned as the recognized sovereign of the State of Salgur, in the Fars province in the second half of the 13th century (1283-1287).

In this chapter of her book, historian Bahriye Üçok briefly introduces the founding history of this state to make us understand under which condition a woman was able to come to power.

The name of the princedom originates from Salgur, who was the leader of one of the Turcoman communities and then became chamberlain to Tuqrul of the Iraq Seljuks. One of Salgur’s grandsons, Sungur bin Mevdut, rose against the Seljuks in 1147-8 following the murder of an emir related to him, and proclaimed independence in the province of Fars.

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs, Media & Culture Tagged With: Bahriye Üçok, Ebesh Hatun, Fars, Female Sovereigns in Islamic States, feminism, history, Hulagu Khan, Iran, Islam, Islamophobia, MENA, Middle East, Mongols, Salgur, Seljuks, Türkan Hatun, women

Introduction: A Forgotten Study Of Female Political Power In Muslim History

November 7, 2014 By Dr. Milena Rampoldi 16 Comments

For me personally, the history of ruling women in Muslim history is a history of silence, exclusion, segregation and oblivion. Women strongly participated in Muslim politics and social affairs in the first generations after the Prophet Muhammad’s era. Then, step by step, the androcentric interpretations of Quran and Sunnah put women aside and caused their progressive horizontal segregation by prohibiting them from participation in the social and political life of the Ummah.

For Islamic feminism today, it is of central importance to stress the participation of women in Muslim history, and to show the insurmountable obstacles they had to shoulder to fight for their difficult and proscribed political career in male-dominated societies. To rediscover socio-political female power in Muslim societies today, it is essential to read books like “İslam Devletinde Kadın Hükümdarlar.”

It was written by Dr. Bahriye Üçok, a Turkish historian, Islam expert and feminist in 1965, as PhD thesis at the University of Ankara — where she also taught for years until her untimely in 1990 death by parcel bomb at her house. In order to reaffirm the importance of female political participation in our time, we must rediscover these forgotten books about Muslim rulers in history.

Filed Under: Civil Liberties, Foreign Affairs Tagged With: Abdulhamid al-Ansari, Acheen, Ankara, Ankara University, Aygun Uzunlar, Bahriye Üçok, Balqis, Benazir Bhutto, Bhopal, Egypt, Female Sovereigns in Islamic States, feminism, hadith, history, India, Islam, İslam Devletinde Kadın Hükümdarlar, Islamic feminism, Islamic politics, Islamist extremism, Kumru Üçok, Kutluk, Mahmud Badawi, misogyny, Muslim history, Queen of Sheba, Quran, Salgur, Sassanid State, Shajar al-Durr, Shajarat ad-Durr, Shajarat al-Durr, Sharia law, Sunnah, Turkey, Ummah, University of Ankara

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