Kutlugh Turkan

Kutlugh Turkan (c.1208/1213 – 1283), was a sovereign ruler of Kirman from 1257 until 1282.

Early life Different accounts exist regarding her early life. According to "History of Qara-Khitai Shahs" (Tāriḵ-e šāhi-e Qarāḵtāʾiān) by anonymous author, she might have been born in Transoxiana between 1208 and 1213 and later sold as a slave to an Isfahani merchant, who adopter her and raised with excellent education. While other sources talk of her as a concubine to Qiyasaddin Pirshah (son of Muhammad II of Khwarazm), then of Buraq Hajib. Although Fatema Mernissi proposed that she was Buraq Hajib's daughter. According to Fatema Mernissi, Kutlugh of Kirman was one of Muslim female rulers who met the Muslim criteria of sovereignty. She obtained Sirjan for her daughter Padishah Khatun when she visited newly crowned Abaqa Khan in 1265.

Muzaffar al-Din Hajjaj Sultan Padishah Khatun (with Kutlugh Turkan) — married to Abaqa, then Gaykhatu. Bibi Turkan (with Kutlugh Turkan) — married Adud al-Din Amir Hajji, then Shams al-Din b. Malik Tazigu