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Adila Khanum (1879 – July 1929) was a Turkish woman who was the third spouse of Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca, King of Hejaz between 1916 and 1924. Biography. Adila Khanum was born in Constantinople 1879. She was a daughter of Salah Bey and a granddaughter of Mustafa Rashid Pasha, sometime Grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire.
Adila Khanum ou Khadija Adila (1879 - juillet 1929) est une femme turque qui est la troisième épouse de Hussein ben Ali, chérif de La Mecque puis roi du Hedjaz entre 1916 et 1924 et calife à partir de 1924.
Adila Khanum was a Turkish woman who was the third spouse of Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca, King of Hejaz between 1916 and 1924.
Il principe Zeid era il quarto figlio di Hussein bin Alì, Sharif della Mecca, e unico con la terza moglie, Adila Khanum. Studiò al Liceo Galatasaray e poi al Robert College a Costantinopoli, e in seguito al Balliol College, Oxford.
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She was born in about 1847 the ruling family in Sanandaj, second largest city of Iranian Kurdistan. She married Kurdish King Osman Pasha Jaff, whose headquarters was in Halabja. Her husband Osman Pasha Jaff, was a Pasha and she ruled in his place at her husband’s absence. Her father was the grand vizier of Persia and her uncles were grand viziers o...
Gertrude Bell, British politician and writer, describes Adela Khanem in a letter in 1921 as follows: " The feature of Halabja is 'Adlah Khanum the great Jaff Beg Zadah lady, mother of Ahmad Beg. She is the widow of Kurdish King Osman Pasha Jaff, sometime dead, and continues to rule the Jaff as much as she can and intrigue more than you would think ...
Minorsky, The Tribes of Western Iran, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, pp. 73–80, 1945.Ely Banister Soane, Report on the Sulaimania district of Kurdistan. 1910Ely Banister Soane, Notes on the Southern Tribes of Kurdistan, Civil commissioner, Baghdad. 1918Personalities in Kurdistan, Civil Commissioner, Baghdad. 1918(David K. Fieldhouse 2002)David K. Fieldhouse (9 February 2002). Kurds, Arabs and Britons: The Memoir of Col. W.A. Lyon in Kurdistan, 1918–1945. I.B.Tauris. ISBN 978-1-86064-613-3.Adela Khanum was not above a little light sabotage. She became renowned in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries for the immense power she wielded as leader of the Jaff tribe, the largest in Kurdistan – a position that also made her then the most important woman in Islam.
Lady Adela Khanum was a Persian aristocrat, a famous Kurd, the leader of the Jaf tribe and the ruler of Halabja in Iraqi Kurdistan from 1909 to 1924. Lady Adela was famous for her bravery, and was said to have saved the lives of many British soldiers.
