Kamile Şerife Hanım

Profile summary

Birth / DeathUnknown / 1917
TitleWife of Yusuf Şetvan Bey
Cemetery Number1
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Highlights

  • She was the wife of Yusuf Şetvan Bey, who served as a deputy in the Ottoman Chamber of Deputies between 1908 and 1912 and later worked in Teşkilat-ı Mahsusa, the Ottoman intelligence organization, during the First World War.

  • Her father was Sheikh Sayyid Cevad Efendi, one of the leading figures of the Berzenciyye, one of the major Iraqi branches of the Qadiriyya Order, and, like Kamile Şerife Hanım, buried in the Fatih Mosque Cemetery.

Epitaph

He is the Eternal. This is the grave of Kamile Şerife Hanım, wife of Yusuf Şetvan Bey and daughter of Seyyid Cevad Efendi, one of the great figures of the Berzenciyye order. Year 1917.

A Fatiha for his/her soul