Sheykh Ibrahim II was the 40th shah of Shirvan.

Coming to power

Not much is known about his childhood. He fled to Nowshahr after his grandfather

Gazi Beg Ghazi Beg, 38th Shirvanshah, succeeded his brother in 1501. His entire reign was during a 6-month siege of Baku by the Safavid Shah Ismail I. He was a weak ruler, who ruled briefly only Baku, Salyan and Mahmudabad. Although he resisted the Safavi ...

's disastrous defeat. Having heard news that the Safavid ruler Ismail I was coming after him, he fled to Gilan, where he hid for two years. In 1502, a rebellion erupted in Shirvan and his nephew Sultan Mahmud was deposed. Local people invited Ibrahim to the throne of Shirvan same year.

Reign

In his 3rd year of rule,

Shah Ismail I Ismail I ( fa, اسماعیل, Esmāʿīl, ; July 17, 1487 – May 23, 1524), also known as Shah Ismail (), was the founder of the Safavid dynasty of Safavid Iran, Iran, ruling as its King of Kings (''Shahanshah'') from 1501 to 1524. His re ...

besieged Gulustan castle in order to restore

Mahmud Mahmud is a transliteration of the male Arabic given name (), common in most parts of the Islamic world. It comes from the Arabic triconsonantal root Ḥ-M-D, meaning ''praise'', along with ''Muhammad''. Siam Mahmud *Mahmood (singer) (born 199 ...

who fled to his court after deposition. After three months of siege, unexpectedly, a slave of

beheaded him at night and sent his head to Ibrahim. Sheykhshah, excited by the news, suddenly made a raid on besieging

Safavid Safavid Iran or Safavid Persia (), also referred to as the Safavid Empire, '. was one of the greatest Iranian empires after the 7th-century Muslim conquest of Persia, which was ruled from 1501 to 1736 by the Safavid dynasty. It is often conside ...

forces and forced them to flee. Despite victory, he accepted to be vassal of Ismail.

Relations with Safavids

In 1507, Sheykhshah rebelled against the Safavids but was forced to make peace again in 1509. He visited Tabriz in 1518 as a guest of Ismail I. In response to his loyalty, Ismail offered an engagement of between his daughter and Prince Khalil. In 1523, Ismail married a daughter of Sheykhshah.Munajjimbashi, Camiu'd - Düvel (The Compendium of Nations), p. 173.

Family

Sheykshah fathered seven sons, only 4 of them is known: * Prince Khalil * Prince Muhammad - d. 1528 in a battle with Uzbeks in army of Tahmasp I. * Prince Muzaffar - fled to the

Gazikumukh Shamkhalate "Gazikumukh Shamkhalate" is a term introduced in Russian-Dagestan historiography starting from the 1950s–60s to denote the Kumyk state that existed on the territory of present-day Dagestan in the period of the 8th to 17th centuries with the cap ...

. * Prince Farrukh Yassar - fled to the

References

1524 deaths Year of birth unknown 16th-century people of Safavid Iran {{Iran-royal-stub