page_title: Mehisti Hanım
hierarchical_section_title: Mehisti Hanım
caption_attribution_description: English: A painting by Abdulmecid (29 May 1868 – 23 August 1944) depicting his Circassian wife Şehsuvar Kadınefendi playing violin, Hatice (also known as lady Ophelia) playing piano, and his son Ömer Faruk plays cello as other two women, one of whom may be his third wife Mehisti, listen with rapt attention at his summer palace in Bağlarbaşı, given to him in 1895.
context_page_description: Mehisti Hanım was the fourth wife of Abdulmejid II, the last Caliph of the Ottoman Caliphate.
context_section_description: Mehisti Hanım (Ottoman Turkish: مہستی خانم‎; born Atiye Akalsba; 27 January 1892 – c. 1964) was the fourth wife of Abdulmejid II, the last Caliph of the Ottoman Caliphate.
caption: "Beethoven in the Harem", 1915. Mehisti is thought to have been one of the two women listening with rapt attention[1]
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