#ibrahim sultan

[chaos-of-the-abyss]

i know they both grow up not great but tiny murad with tiny ibrahim is so unbearably adorable i'm crying

[brassmanticore]

Surat al-Fatihah and the beginning of Surat al-Baqarah, from a Quran signed and dated to June 1427 in Iran.  This book was copied by Ibrahim Sultan (1394–1435), grandson of Timur and governor of Shiraz, who was a patron of the book arts and an accomplished calligrapher in his own right. 

Ibrahim Sultan is said to have copied at least five manuscripts of the Qur'an and to have composed the calligraphic inscriptions for two schools he established in Shiraz. (Met Museum)

[lyarraofhousestark]

Just saw a gif set of Hatice and Ibrahim, and it reminded me, remember how they spent like 30 hours worth of television talking about how much their love was forbidden and if the Sultan discovered them Ibrahim would lose his life?

And then Suleiman found out and was just kind of like “Bro, you guys should get married!” Like talk about creating your own damn problems.

[buonfresco]

Ibrahim Sultan, Qur'an of Ibrahim Sultan, 1427

"Ibrahim Sultan (1394–1435), grandson of Timur and governor of Shiraz, was a patron of the book arts and an accomplished calligrapher in his own right. This Qur'an manuscript, executed in an elegant naskh script, was written by the ruler himself, signed and dated to June 1427. Ibrahim Sultan is said to have copied at least five manuscripts of the Qur'an and to have composed the calligraphic inscriptions for two schools he established in Shiraz." (x)

[brassmanticore]

Qur'an of Ibrahim Sultan

Iran, AD 1427

Ibrahim Sultan (1394–1435), grandson of Timur and governor of Shiraz, was a patron of the book arts and an accomplished calligrapher in his own right. This Qur'an manuscript, executed in an elegant naskh script, was written by the ruler himself, signed and dated to June 1427. Ibrahim Sultan is said to have copied at least five manuscripts of the Qur'an and to have composed the calligraphic inscriptions for two schools he established in Shiraz.

(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

[timur-i-lang]

Conquest of Baghdad by Timur, Shiraz, Iran, 1435-6

"This folio once illustrated a manuscript of the Zafarnama, a biography of the ruler Timur commissioned by his grandson Ibrahim Sultan. The text glorifies Timur’s many victories on the battlefield, including his 1401 siege of Baghdad, depicted here. The distinctively spare yet highly animated angular compositions are characteristic of manuscript painting produced in Shiraz in this period."