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{{Short description|Wife of Osman I}}
{{Distinguish|Rabia Bala Hatun}}
{{family name hatnote|Kameriye Malhun|Hatun||lang=Ottoman Turkish}}
{{Infobox royalty
| name         = Malhun Hatun
| title        = 
| image        = Mal hatun, eskişehir.jpg
| caption      = Statue of Malhun Hatun in [[Eskişehir]], [[Turkey]]
| spouse       = [[Osman I]]
| issue        = [[Orhan]]<ref name="İÂ" />
| full name    = ''Kameriye Malhun Hatun''
| father       = Abdülaziz Ömer Bey<ref name="ömer">{{cite book|author=Sakaoğlu, Necdet|author-link=:tr:Necdet Sakaoğlu|title=Bu mülkün kadın sultanları: Vâlide sultanlar, hâtunlar, hasekiler, kadınefendiler, sultanefendiler|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6WUMAQAAMAAJ&q=%C3%96mer+Bey|publisher=Oğlak Publications|year=2008|pages=29|isbn=978-9-753-29623-6}}.</ref>
| birth_date   = 13th century
| birth_place  = [[Anatolia]]
| death_date   = After 1326<ref name="İÂ" />
| death_place  = [[Söğüt]], [[Anatolia]]
| place of burial = 
| religion     = [[Sunni Islam]]<!-- Please do not change it, it is for religion, not for sects -->
}}

'''Kameriye Malhun Hatun'''<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sakaoğlu |first=Necdet |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6WUMAQAAMAAJ&q=osman+bey |title=Bu mülkün kadın sultanları: vâlide sultanlar, hâtunlar, hasekiler, kadınefendiler, sultanefendiler |date=2008 |publisher=Oğlak Yayıncılık |isbn=978-975-329-623-6 |pages=29 |language=tr}}</ref> (''"moon''" and "''wealth''"; also called '''Mal Hatun''' or '''Mala Hatun'''; died after 1326)<ref name="İÂ" /> was the second legal wife of [[Osman I]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mardinlife.com/osman-bey-malhunla-ne-zaman-evlendi-osman-bey-malhun-hatun-ile-nasil-tanisti.html|lang=tr|title=Osman Bey Malhunla Ne Zaman Evlendi? Osman Bey Malhun Hatun İle Nasıl Tanıştı?|website=mardinlife.com|date=23 February 2021|access-date=7 May 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.historicales.com/real-history-of-bala-hatun-in-kurulus-osman-season/|website=historicales.com|title=Real History of Bala Hatun in Kurulus Osman Season|last=Akram|first=Uzair|access-date=7 May 2021|archive-date=12 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210512062159/https://www.historicales.com/real-history-of-bala-hatun-in-kurulus-osman-season/|url-status=usurped}}</ref> the leader of the Ottoman Turks and the founder of the dynasty that established and ruled the [[Ottoman Empire]]. She was the mother of Sultan [[Orhan]].<ref name="İÂ" />

==Biography==
According to some historians, she was the daughter of the [[Anatolian Beyliks|Anatolian Turkish Bey]], Ömer Bey.<ref name="ömer"/> In the past there have been many speculations that she was the daughter of [[Sheikh Edebali]], as most of the historians during the Ottoman period accept that she was indeed his daughter, although her name has been a subject of conflict to this date, but now it is known that Edebali's daughter was [[Rabia Bala Hatun|Rabia Bala]]. Other sources say that she was the daughter of Ömer Abdülaziz Bey, [[Seljuq dynasty|Seljuk]] [[Vizier]] of [[Anatolia]].<ref name=":0">{{cite web|title=Consorts Of Ottoman Sultans (in Turkish)|url=http://www.enfal.de/otarih44.htm|publisher=Ottoman Web Page}}</ref>{{bsn|reason=[[WP:SPS]]|date=June 2023}}<ref name="İÂ">{{cite encyclopedia|encyclopedia=[[İslâm Ansiklopedisi|TDV Encyclopedia of Islam]] (3rd ed.)|title=Mal Hatun|first=Feridun |last=Emecen|url=https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/mal-hatun|date=2019|volume=Annex 2|pages=182–183|lang=tr}}</ref>
 
The 1324 endowment deed for a [[Dervish]] [[Monastery]] built by Sultan Orhan suggests that his mother was not, as popular historical tradition maintains, Edebali's daughter but rather Mal Hatun, the daughter of one "Umar Bey or Ömer Bey". The title "Bey", used by the princely dynasties of Anatolia, suggests that Mal Hatun's father was a person of some status and authority. One possibility is that he was the eponymous ruler of an "Amouri" (Umeri) Principality, which was located northeast of the emerging Ottoman State and disappeared in the late 13th or the early 14th century.{{cn|date=April 2023}}

The Amouri are described by the 13th century Byzantine historian [[George Pachymeres]], who says that a son of Umar fought with Osman in one of his first raids against local Byzantine lords (the victory of Baphaion). The Ottomans, according to Pachymeres, went on to assume the role played by Amouri until their demise as the principal aggressor against the Byzantines in the northwest Anatolia. If Pachymeres's report is correct, the timing and the political context are appropriate for a marriage between Osman and Umar Bey's daughter.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Leslie P.|first1=Peirce|title=The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire|chapter=Wives and Concubines: Toward Concubinage|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1993|location=New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/imperialharemwom00peir/page/55 55]|isbn=978-0-19-508677-5|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/imperialharemwom00peir/page/55}}</ref>

==In popular culture==
* In the Turkish historical drama series ''[[Kuruluş Osman]]'', Malhun Hatun is portrayed by the Turkish actress [[Yıldız Çağrı Atiksoy]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-06-22 |title=Kuruluş Osman'ın Malhun Hatun'u Yıldız Çağrı Atiksoy'un son hali çok konuşuldu! Yeni imajı olay oldu |url=https://halktv.com.tr/yasam/kurulus-osmanin-malhun-hatunu-yildiz-cagri-atiksoyun-son-hali-cok-konusuldu-yeni-749109h |access-date=2023-06-27 |website=Halk TV |language=tr}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Ottoman family tree]]
*[[Line of succession to the Ottoman throne]]
*[[Ottoman Emperors family tree]] (simplified)
*[[List of the mothers of the Ottoman Sultans]]
*[[List of consorts of the Ottoman Sultans]]
*[[Malhun Hatun (fictional character)]], appears in the drama series, [[Kuruluş: Osman]]

==Further reading==

* [[Leslie Peirce|Peirce, Leslie P.]], The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire, [[Oxford University Press]], 1993, {{ISBN|0-19-508677-5}} (paperback).
* [[:tr:Yavuz Bahadıroğlu|Bahadıroğlu, Yavuz]], Resimli Osmanlı Tarihi, Nesil Yayınları ''(Ottoman History with Illustrations, Nesil Publications)'', 15th Ed., 2009, {{ISBN|978-975-269-299-2}} (Hardcover).

==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{Mothers of the Ottoman Sultans}}

[[Category:13th-century consorts of Ottoman sultans]]
[[Category:Mothers of Ottoman sultans]]