There are different opinions about her real name.[2] It may have been Halima, Halime, Alamshah, Alemshah, Alamşah, Alemşah,[3][4] or Martha.[5]
Life
Her father was the Aq Qoyunlu ruler Uzun Hasan and her mother was the daughter of John IV of Trebizond,[6] Theodora Megale Komnene, also known as "Despina Hatun".[7] There is no reliable information about the first years of her life. In 1471 she married Shaykh Haydar, the son of her aunt Khadija Khatun (her father's sister) and the sheikh of the Safavid Order. They had three sons, Ali Mirza Safavi, Ibrahim and Ismail I and four daughters.[citation needed]
Issue
By her husband, she had three sons and four daughters:
Ismail I (1487 - 1524). First Shah of Safavid dynasty.
Ali Mirza Safavi (d. 1494). He was the penultimate head of the Safavid order.
Shaykh Ibrahim.
Fakhr Jahan Khanum. She married Bayram Beg Qaramanlu.
^Robinson, Basil William (1993). Studies in Persian Art. Pindar Press. p. 20. ISBN978-0-907132-43-1. No other prince of the time can be credibly associated with this work, and the galloping bearded prince in the center of the composition, we may be permitted to recognize a contemporary portrait of the founder of the White Sheep Turkman power. Uzun Hasan.
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