Destizer Müşfika Kadın (Turkish pronunciation: [myʃfikʰa kʰadɯn]; Ottoman Turkish: مشفقه قادين; meaning "the compassionate one"; born Ayşe Ağır; c. 1872 – 18 July 1961; after the Surname Law of 1934: Müşfika Kayısoy) was the eighth consort of Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire.

[5] Mahmud Bey volunteered for service in the Ottoman-Russian war of 1877–78, entrusting his wife and children to the care of Hüseyin Vasfi Pasha, an army officer posted in the area.

Her only pleasure and distraction lay in passing time by training young children, gathering them about her and finding consolation in their behavior.

Pertevniyal Sultan was enchanted by Emine Hanım's beautiful face, blue eyes and blonde hair and by the sweet aspects of Fatma's head of curls.

[8][9] When Pertevniyal Sultan died in 1883,[10] as custom dictated all the servants in villa, headed by the High Hazinedar, were transferred to Dolmabahçe Palace.

[13] As his first gift to her, Abdul Hamid presented her with an exquisite copy of the Quran, which was made in nesih talik by Kazasker Mustafa Izzet Efendi (died 1876) in 1871.

[13][15] As had been the case with Abdul Hamid's other consorts, once Müşfika joined their ranks the apartments known as the Lesser Chancellery were then made ready.

Ebezade Kamile Hanım, who served as midwife at Ayşe's birth was presented with three hundred liras, and Dr. Triandafilidis, the specialist in women's diseases of that era who had examined and treated Müşfika every week during her pregnancy was conferred with a decoration.

[32] Also previously in 1925 and 1928 respectively, she and Şevket Mehmet Ali Bey, a banker representing her had given the power of attorney to Sami Günzberg, a well-known Turkish Jewish lawyer, authorizing him to regain from usurpers buildings, lands, mines, concessions left by Abdul Hamid situated in Turkish territory and elsewhere.

[31] In 1944, she applied to the government for financial assistance,[33] after which in 1949, President İsmet İnönü fixed her monthly allowance to two hundred liras.

The work originally appeared in the serial format in the Turkish popular magazine Hayat in the late 1950s, followed by its publication as a book in Istanbul in 1960, shortly before the princess's death.

[35] Müşfika Kadın died of pleurisy on 16 July 1961[36][37] at the age of approximately eighty-nine,[1] at Gazi Osmanpaşa's mansion on Serencebey Street 53,[30] Yıldız, Istanbul, Turkey, nearly a year after her daughter's death.