Alamshah Halime Begum (; 1460–1522) was a Turkoman Aq Qoyunlu princess. She was the daughter of Uzun Hasan and Teodora Despina Khatun, and the mother of Ismail I.
Name There are different opinions about her real name.Həbib əl-Siyər, IV cild, səh. 425, 428 It may have been Halima, Halime, Alamshah, Alemshah, Alamşah, Alemşah,A. D. Możṭar, Cahanguşa-i Xaqan, İslamabad,1971.İsgəndər bəy Münşi, Tarixe-aləmaraye-Abbasi or Martha.G. Sarwar, The History of Shāh Ismāʿīl Ṣafawī, Aligarh, 1939
Life Her father was the Aq Qoyunlu ruler Uzun Hasan and her mother was the daughter of John IV of Trebizond,Şərəf Xan Bitlisi ―Şərəfnamə, II cild, s. 133-134 Theodora Megale Komnene, also known as "Despina Khatun".Michel Kuršanskis, "La descendance d'Alexis IV, empereur de Trébizonde. Contribution à la prosopographie des Grands Comnènes", Revue des études byzantines, 37 (1979), pp. 239-247 There is no reliable information about the first years of her life. In 1471, she married Shaykh Haydar, the son of her paternal aunt Khadija Khatun and the sheikh of the Safavid Order. They had three sons, Ali Mirza, Ebrahim Mirza and Ismail I and four daughters.
Issue By her husband, she had three sons and four daughters: Ali Mirza (Dead 1494), He was the penultimate head of the Safavid order Ebrahim Mirza Ismail I (1487 – 1524), First Shah of the Safavid Empire Fakhr Jahan Khanum, She married Bayram Beg Qaramanlu Melek Khanum, She married Abdallah Khan Shamlu A daughter who married Husayn Beg Shamlu A daughter who married Shah Ali Beg
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