Mehisti Hanım
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Mehisti Hanım, with her husband Abdulmejid II, and daughter Dürrüşehvar Sultan
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| Calipha consort of the Ottoman Caliphate | |||||
| Tenure | 19 November 1922 – 3 March 1924 | ||||
| Born | Atiye Akalsba c. 1896 Yongalık Mansion, Adapazarı, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire |
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| Died |
c. 1964 (aged 67–68) Middlesex, London, England |
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| Burial | Brookwood Cemetery, London | ||||
| Spouse | Abdulmejid II | ||||
| Issue | Dürrüşehvar Sultan | ||||
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| House | House of Osman (by marriage) | ||||
| Father | Hacımaf Bey Akalsba | ||||
| Mother | Safiye Hanım | ||||
| Religion | Sunni Islam | ||||
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Turkish: Mehisti Hanım English: Mahasti Khanum Ottoman Turkish: مہستی خانم |
Mehisti Hanım (Ottoman Turkish: مہستی خانم; c. 1896 – c. 1964) was the fourth wife of Abdulmejid II, the last Caliph of the Muslim world.
Mehisti Hanım was born in 1896 in Yongalık Mansion, Adapazarı, Istanbul. Her father was Hacımaf Bey Akalsba, an Abkhazian, and her mother was Safiye Hanım. She had two brothers Kamil Bey (died 1963), and Fevzi Bey, and three sisters, Zahide Hanım, Ayşe Mihridil Hanım (died 1969), and Mihrivefa Hanım. She was tall and had light brown hair and blue eyes.
She married Abdulmejid on 16 April 1912 in the Bağlarbaşı Palace.Dürrüşehvar Sultan, the couple's only daughter was born at Çamlica Palace on 26 January 1914. In 1924, she went into an exile along with the other members of the entourage. They moved firstly to Switzerland and then to France where they settled in Paris. During exile, her daughter, Dürrüşehvar married Prince Azam Jah, the eldest son and heir of the last Nizam of Hyderabad State, Osman Ali Khan, Asif Jah VII, at Nice, on 12 November 1931, and went to live in British India.
After Abdulmejid's death in 1944, Mehisti settled in Middlesex, London. She died of stroke in 1964, and was buried in Brookwood Cemetery. After Dürrüşehvar's death in 2006, she was buried beside her.
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