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Ibrahim (/ ˌ ɪ b r ə ˈ h iː m /; 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 son of sultan Ahmed I by Kösem Sultan , an ethnic Greek originally named Anastasia.
İbrahim (born Nov. 4, 1615, Constantinople—died Aug. 18, 1648, Constantinople) was an Ottoman sultan whose unstable character made him prey to the ambitions of his ministers and relatives and to his own self-indulgence; as a consequence, the Ottoman state was weakened by war, misrule, and rebellion during his reign (1640–48).
Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire grew up in a gilded cage, and it broke his mind. The empire quaked under his disturbing rule—right up to his chilling end. Read on for a window into the madness of Ibrahim, the Insatiable Sultan.
Ibrahim was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1640 until 1648. He was born in Constantinople, the son of sultan Ahmed I by Kösem Sultan, an ethnic Greek originally named Anastasia.
Jan 21, 2022 · Sultan Ibrahim, who reigned over the Ottoman Empire from 1640 to 1648, is one of these characters. Even textbooks describe this sultan as Deli Ibrahim, or Ibrahim the Mad. In fact, this is the imputation of 20th-century historians.
After his rival Hain Ahmed Pasha, the governor of Egypt, declared himself independent of the Ottoman Empire and was executed in 1524, Ibrahim Pasha traveled south to Egypt in 1525 and reformed the Egyptian provincial civil and military administration system.
From his early youth, the Ottoman Sultan Ibrahim I "The Mad" (±1616-1648) had been locked up in the "Cage", a large building without windows. When he was finally proclaimed Sultan, he sought compensation for his lost years, indulging in debauchery with an endless supply of fresh virgins.
