The youngest son
“The Prince Ibrahim, the King’s youngest son, who had long entertained ambitious views towards the throne, had gained over many of the nobles to his interest”, Ferishta writes of the weeks after Ismail’s death, when the brothers “were on the eve of coming to open war, though in an enemy’s country”. The grandmother’s coup settled it in his favour.
The archive’s Bijapur essay records the confessional swing under him — the names of the twelve Imams removed from the Friday sermon — and this entry does not repeat what that essay cites.
A succession left to Providence
Having put his son Ali’s tutor to death for Shia leanings and confined the boy at Miraj, and then found the younger son Tahmasp “by far a more zealous Sheea than his brother”, Ibrahim “said he must leave the succession to be determined by the decrees of Providence, and to the ministers of the government, who might elect either of the princes they chose for their sovereign after his death.”
He died in AH 965 — Briggs prints 1557 in the margin; the Hijri year runs into 1558 — “and was buried at Gogy, near his father and grandfather, after a reign of twenty-four years and some months.”