Şehzade Mehmed Abid

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Şehzade Mehmed Abid
Born17 September 1905
Yıldız Palace, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (present day Istanbul, Turkey)
Died8 December 1973(1973-12-08) (aged 68)
Beirut, Lebanon
Burial
Tekkiye Mosque, Damascus, Syria
Spouse
Pınarıdil Fahriye Hanım
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(died 1934)​
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(m. 1936; div. 1949)​
Names
Turkish: Şehzade Mehmed Abid
Ottoman Turkish: شہزادہ محمد عابد
DynastyOttoman
FatherAbdul Hamid II
MotherSaliha Naciye Hanım
ReligionSunni Islam

Şehzade Mehmed Abid (Ottoman Turkish: شهزادہ محمد عابد; 17 September 1905 – 8 December 1973) was an Ottoman prince, the son of Sultan Abdul Hamid II and Saliha Naciye Hanım.

Early years[]

Şehzade Mehmed Abid was born on 17 September 1905 in the Yıldız Palace. His father was Abdul Hamid II, son of Abdulmejid I and Tirimüjgan Kadın. His mother was Saliha Naciye Hanım,[1][2] daughter of Arslan Bey Ankuap.[3] He was the eighth son, and sixteenth child born to his father, and the eldest child of his mother. He had a sister, Samiye Sultan three years younger than him, who died in infancy. He was named after Abdul Hamid's decreased brother.[1]

On 27 April 1909, Abdul Hamid was deposed, and sent into exile in Thessaloniki.[4] Abid and his mother followed Abdul Hamid. There they lived in Alatini Mansion.[2] After Thessaloniki fell to Greece in 1912, Abdul Hamid returned to Istanbul, and settled in the Beylerbeyi Palace.[5] His circumcision took place on 9 October 1913.[2] Abdul Hamid died in 1918, when Abid was thirteen years of age.[6]

Abid's early education took place in Galatasaray High School. He was thought painting by Halil Pasha, and his history tutor was Tevfik Bey. After graduating from here, he was enrolled in the Ottoman Military College,[7] and went on to become senior lieutenant in the imperial Ottoman Army. He also served aide-de-camp to Sultan Mehmed VI.[2] His mother died in 1923, when he was nineteen years of age.[6]

Between 1918 and 1922, Abid lived in the Yıldız Palace, and between 1922 and 1924, he lived in the Erenköy Palace.[2]

Exile[]

At the exile if the imperial family in March 1924, Abid settled in Beirut, Lebanon. He used to spend most of the time in Jounieh with his eldest brother Şehzade Mehmed Selim, and the summers in Aley. He then went to Paris, where he stayed with his older sister, Ayşe Sultan.[2] Here he earned his living as a soap seller.[6] On 14 January 1925, he gave the power of attorney to Sami Günzberg, a well-known Turkish Jewish lawyer, authorising him to regain from usurpers buildings, lands, mines, concessions left by Abdul Hamid situated in Turkish territory and elsewhere.[8]

In Paris, he went to the Sorbonne Law School, and the Faculty of Political Sciences from where he graduated in 1936 and 1937 respectively. He received his doctorate in law from Sorbonne. He also went to Ecole Nationale des Langues Orientales Vivantes, where he graduated in Persian Language and Literature. Between 1940 and 1948, he lived for short periods in Toulouse, Nice, Madrid, Lisbon, Cairo, Alexandria and Tirana.[2][6]

Betweent 1936 and 1939,[2][6] King Zog I of Albania, appointed him the Albanian Ambassador to France.[9]

Personal life[]

In 1930,[2] Abid asked Abdulmejid II and Mehisti Hanım's daughter, Dürrüşehvar Sultan's hand in marriage. However, her father refused, on the grounds of Dürrüşehvar being under age.[6] In 1934, his marriage was arranged to Mihrişah Sultan, daughter of Şehzade Yusuf Izzeddin and Leman Hanım, and then to the daughter of Nizam of Hyderabad State. However, none of them materialised.[2]

Abid's first wife was Pınardil Fahriye Hanım. She died in 1934 in Nice, France, and was buried in Muslim Bobigny Cemetery.[10] His second wife was Princess Senije Zogu, daughter of Xhemal Pasha Zogu and Sadije Toptani, and sister of King Zog I. They were betrothed on 9 January 1936[11] in Tirana, and were married on 13 January 1936.[12] They divorced in 1949.[6]

Personality[]

Abid was very smart, cultured and interested in history. In his last days he used to spend his time in libraries and bookstores. He could speak Turkish and French, and knew Arabic and Persian  He received many offers to write down his memories about his father. However, he turned down those offers. He would generally refuse the journalists requests to meet him. He was handsome, and would dress comely and cleanly. He spoke very little and was too modest.[6]

Death[]

In 1966, Mehmed Abid settled in Beirut, where he died of heart attack on 8 December 1973 and was buried at Tekkiye Mosque, Damascus, Syria.[2][1][6]

Honours[]

Styles of
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Reference styleHis Imperial Highness
Spoken styleYour Imperial Highness
Ottoman honours
Foreign honours

In literature[]

  • Şehzade Mehmed Abid is a character in Tim Symonds' historical novel Sherlock Holmes and The Sword of Osman (2015).[14]

Ancestry[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c Adra, Jamil (2005). Genealogy of the Imperial Ottoman Family 2005. p. 29.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Yılmaz Öztuna (2008). II. Abdülhamîd: zamânı ve şahsiyeti. Kubbealti Publishing. pp. 238–39. ISBN 978-97564-446-27.
  3. ^ Ali Akyıldız (2018). Son Dönem Osmanlı Padişahlarının Nikâh Meselesi. p. 698.
  4. ^ Hall, Richard C. (October 9, 2014). War in the Balkans: An Encyclopedic History from the Fall of the Ottoman Empire to the Breakup of Yugoslavia. ABC-CLIO. pp. 1–2. ISBN 978-1-610-69031-7.
  5. ^ Parry, Milman; Lord, Albert B. (1979). Serbocroatian heroic songs, Volume 1. Harvard University Press. p. 371.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Saraydan Seyyar Satıcılîğa: Şehzâde Âbid Efendi". www.erkembugraekinci.com. 19 June 2013. Retrieved 4 November 2020.
  7. ^ Monarchies and the Great War. Springer. 2018. p. 144. ISBN 978-3-319-89515-4.
  8. ^ Kark, Ruth; Frantzman, Seth J. (2010). "One of the most spectacular lawsuits ever launched": Abdülhamid's heirs, his lands and the land case in Palestine, 1908-1950. p. 138.
  9. ^ Robert Elsie (December 24, 2012). A Biographical Dictionary of Albanian History. I.B.Tauris. p. 506. ISBN 978-17807-643-13.
  10. ^ "Fransa'daki Şehzade Kabirlerinin Durumu İçler Acısı". haberler.com. 2014-02-25. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
  11. ^ Great Britain and the East. 1946. p. 105.
  12. ^ "KING ZOG'S SISTER WED TO PRINCE ABID; Princess Senije of Albania Is Bride of Son of the Last Sultan of Turkey". The New York Times. 1936-01-14. Retrieved 2022-01-27.
  13. ^ Albanian Royal Court
  14. ^ Symonds, Tim (October 14, 2015). Sherlock Holmes and The Sword of Osman. Andrews UK Limited. ISBN 978-1-780-92756-5.

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