Talk:Sultana (title)

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I think sultana isn't used as a title of the wife of the sultan. Ottoman Sultans, for example, didn't even have wives, only concubines. Sultanas are the blood relatives of the sultan, e.g. sisters, daughters. His mother's title is valide sultana. Alensha 18:20, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Contradiction

In the former kingdom of Touggourt (now part of Algeria) there was one sultana: Aïsha.

In medieval Egypt, Shajar al-Durr, a former slave of Turkic origin, ascended the throne in 1250, thereby becoming the only Muslim woman to rule a country in North Africa and Western Asia

These statements can't both be true. Junuxx (talk) 21:03, 22 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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The latest edits have obscured the fact that in traditional Islamic societies, "sultana" did not usually mean wife of a sultan. I have the impression that that meaning is rather modern in the Arabic language... AnonMoos (talk) 03:10, 22 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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