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favourite sultana meme: 6 relationships ♦ nurbanu and murad iii

“It was not only in life but in death as well that Nurbanu Sultan enjoyed extraordinary honors. Contrary to the custom whereby the sultan remained in the palace during a funeral, Murad accompanied his mother’s coffin on foot, weeping as he walked, to the mosque of Mehmed the Conqueror, where funeral prayers were said."  – Leslie P. Peirce - The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire