Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire

Ibrahim
Ottoman Caliph
Amir al-Mu'minin
Kayser-i Rûm
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (Padishah)
Reign9 February 1640 – 8 August 1648
PredecessorMurad IV
SuccessorMehmed IV
Born5 November 1615
Topkapı Palace, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
Died18 August 1648(1648-08-18) (aged 32)
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
Burial
ConsortsTurhan Sultan
Saliha Dilaşub Sultan
Muazzez Sultan
Ayşe Sultan
Mahienver Sultan
Saçbağlı Sultan
Şivekar Sultan
Hümaşah Sultan
Others
Issue
Among others
Names
Ibrahim bin Ahmed
DynastyOttoman
FatherAhmed I
MotherKösem Sultan
ReligionSunni Islam
TughraIbrahim's signature

Ibrahim (/ˌɪbrəˈhm/; Ottoman Turkish: ابراهيم; Turkish: İbrahim; 5 November 1615 – 18 August 1648) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1640 until 1648. He was born in Constantinople, the last son of sultan Ahmed I by Kösem Sultan, an ethnic Greek originally named Anastasia.[1][2][3]

He was called Ibrahim the Mad (Turkish: Deli İbrahim) due to his mental condition and behavior.[4] However, historian Scott Rank notes that his opponents spread rumors of the sultan's insanity, and some historians suggest he was more incompetent than mad.[5]

  1. ^ Singh, Nagendra Kr (2000). International encyclopaedia of Islamic dynasties. Anmol Publications PVT. pp. 423–424. ISBN 81-261-0403-1. Kosem Walide or Kosem Sultan, called Mahpaykar (ca. 1589–1651), wife of the Ottoman Sultan Ahmad I and mother of the sultans Murad IV and Ibrahim [q.vv.]. She was Greek by birth, and achieved power in the first place through the harem, exercising a decisive influence in the state
  2. ^ Sonyel, Salâhi Ramadan (1993). Minorities and the destruction of the Ottoman Empire. Turkish Historical Society Printing House. p. 61. ISBN 975-16-0544-X. Many of these ladies of the harem were non-Muslim, for example Sultana Kosem (Anastasia), of Greek origin, who was the wife of Ahmet I (1603–17), and the mother of Murat IV (1623–40), and of Ibrahim (1640–448)
  3. ^ al-Ayvansarayî, Hafiz Hüseyin; Crane, Howard (2000). The garden of the mosques : Hafiz Hüseyin al-Ayvansarayî's guide to the Muslim monuments of Ottoman Istanbul. Brill. p. 21. ISBN 90-04-11242-1. Kosem Valide Mahpeyker, known also simply as Kosem Sultan (c. 1589–1651), consort of Sultan Ahmed I and mother of Murad IV and Ibrahim. Greek by birth, she exercised a decisive influence in the Ottoman state
  4. ^ John Freely, Inside the Seraglio: private lives of the sultans in Istanbul (2000) p. 145. online
  5. ^ Rank, 2020 ch 4. online

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