Ayn al-Hayat Khanum

Ayn al-Hayat Khanum Hanim (Arabic: عين الحياة خانم هانم‎; c. 1790 – 1849), was a consort of Muhammad Ali of Egypt (1769–1849), the first monarch of the Muhammad Ali dynasty and Walida Pasha to their son Sa'id of Egypt (1822–1863), Wāli of Egypt and Sudan from 1854 until 1863.

She is buried in Hosh al-Basha, the mausoleum of the Royal Family in Fustat, Cairo, Egypt.

Sources

• Cuno, Kenneth M. (April 1, 2015). Modernizing Marriage: Family, Ideology, and Law in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Egypt. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 978-0-815-65316-5.
• Sayyid-Marsot, Afaf Lutfi (January 12, 1984). Egypt in the Reign of Muhammad Ali. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-28968-9.