This list includes the biological mothers of Safavid shahs. There were eleven shahs (kings) of the Safavid Empire in ten generations. Throughout 235-years history the shahs were all members of the same house, the house of Safavid.
Name (Birth Name) | Son | Ethnicity | ||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Safavid Iran | ||||||||||||
Alam-Shah Begum (Halima, Mart[h]a) | Ismail I | half Pontic Greek - half Turcoman[1] | ||||||||||
Tajlu Khanum (Shah-Begi Khanum) | Tahmasp I | Turcoman[2] | ||||||||||
Sultanum Begum | Ismail II and Mohammad Khodabanda | Turcoman | ||||||||||
Khayr al-Nisa Begum | Abbas I | Mazanderani | ||||||||||
Dilaram Khanum | Shah Safi | Georgian[3] | ||||||||||
Anna Khanum | Abbas II | Circassian[4] | ||||||||||
Nakihat Khanum | Suleiman I of Persia | Circassian[5] | ||||||||||
Unknown | Sultan Husayn | Circassian[6] | ||||||||||
After the Siege of Isfahan | ||||||||||||
Unknown | Tahmasp II | Unknown | ||||||||||
Unknown | Abbas III | Unknown | ||||||||||
After Nader Shah | ||||||||||||
Shahrbanu Begum[7] | Suleiman II | Unknown | ||||||||||
Khan Aqa Begum or Maryam Begum[7] | Ismail III | Unknown |