In order to have two monumental mosques built in her name, Mihrimah Sultan must have been both powerful and wealthy. Indeed, her husband, Rüstem Pasha, was the richest Grand Vizier in the history of the Ottoman Empire. Moreover, she was the only beloved daughter of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. Her mother, Hürrem Sultan, was the sole legal wife of Suleiman and the woman who initiated the Sultanate of ...