Maryam Begum

Maryam Begum (Persian: مریم بیگم‎‎) was a Safavid princess, who was a daughter of shah Tahmasp I (r. 1524–1576) and in 1577 married the Kia'i ruler Khan Ahmad Khan—they later had a unnamed son and daughter named Yakhan Begum. Maryam Begum died in 1608/9.

Sources

Nashat, Guity; Beck, Lois (2003). Women in Iran from the Rise of Islam to 1800. University of Illinois Press. pp. 1–253. ISBN 978-0-252-07121-8.
Newman, Andrew J. (2008). Safavid Iran: Rebirth of a Persian Empire. I.B.Tauris. pp. 1–281. ISBN 9780857716613.
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Matthee, Rudi (1999). The Politics of Trade in Safavid Iran: Silk for Silver, 1600-1730. Cambridge University Press. pp. 1–290. ISBN 0521641314.

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