#magnificent century

hi!! i’m back! (short of) and i have zero inspiration to do stuff, so… requests are open again! probably they’ll take some time, but i’ll make them. xx
ps: anon is back again

themagnificentsultana:

“Because there’s no other place on earth, where you enter a slave and become a sultana who rules the world.”

“The haseki, a slave concubine and no blood relation to the reigning sultan, ranked higher than the sultan’s own sisters and aunts, the princesses of the dynasty. Her elevated royal status derived from the fact that she was the mother of a potential future sultan. 

Kösem was the last of the colorful and influential hasekis of the “sultanate of women”. Henceforth, the position of haseki would lose its special status. The presence of more than one haseki was a significant change in the reigns of Murad and Ibrahim, signaling that the age of the favorite was coming to an end. In this period the meaning of the title haseki begins to shift from a single “favorite” to something more general like “royal consort”, similar to the earlier khatun.”– Leslie P. Peirce - The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire

I can’t go on, won’t go on Living on, without you…