| Abdullah Mirza | |||||
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| Amir of theTimurid Empire inTransoxiana | |||||
| Reign | 9 May 1450 – June 1451 | ||||
| Predecessor | Abdal-Latif Mirza | ||||
| Successor | Abu Sa'id Mirza | ||||
| Born | After 1410 during theTimurid Empire | ||||
| Died | June 1451 (aged 40-41) Central Asia | ||||
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| Dynasty | Timurid | ||||
| Father | Ibrahim Sultan | ||||
| Mother | Mihr Sultan Agha | ||||
'Abdullah Mirza (after 1410 – June 1451) was a short-lived ruler of theTimurid Empire, which encompassed the territory shared by present-dayIran,Afghanistan,Pakistan, along with substantial areas of India,Mesopotamia andCaucasus.
As a member of theTimurid dynasty, Abdullah Mirza was a great-grandson ofTimur, a grandson ofShah Rukh and a son ofIbrahim Sultan.
Abdullah Mirza was Governor ofFars from 1435 to 1447, succeeding to his fatherIbrāhim b. Shāhrukh who had held the position from 1415-1435, after the first Timurid Governor of the regionIskandar Sulṭān b. ‘Umar Shaykh (1409-1415).[4]
Granted the governorship ofFars by his grandfatherShah Rukh, Abdullah Mirza found his position threatened by his cousinSultan Muhammad during the 1447 succession crisis which followed Shah Rukh's death, and was forced to abandon the province. Weakened by these conflicts, western Iran was soon conquered first by theQara Qoyunlu underJahan Shah circa 1452.[4]
Various important works were created during the governorship of Abdullah Mirza in Shiraz, Fars:
As a supporter ofUlugh Beg, Abdullah Mirza was imprisoned in 1450 by'Abd al-Latif following the latter's rise to power. When 'Abd al-Latif was murdered, he was released and made ruler ofSamarkand, for which he was forced to lavish money upon the troops that supported him. Despite this, he did not enjoy widespread popularity.
During his relatively brief reign, a revolt created by Sultan Muhammad's brotherAla al-Dawla Mirza did not seriously threaten him, but a rising initiated byAbu Sa'id Mirza, whose home base, at the time, was inBukhara, proved to be fatal. Marching fromTashkent to Samarkand with the support ofAbu'l-Khayr Khan, Abu Sa'id Mirza defeated Abdullah Mirza and executed him in 1451, taking his place on the throne.
French: "Copie achevée (f. 671) le jeudi 27 Ğumādà Ier 848H. par le calligraphe Muḥammad al-Sulṭānī [qui était certainement au service du sultan timouride ‛Abd-ullāh b. Ibrāhīm Sulṭān de Šīrāz]"
English:"Copy completed (f. 671) on Thursday 27 Ğumādà I 848H. by the calligrapher Muḥammad al-Sulṭānī [who was certainly in the service of the Timurid sultan ‛Abd-ullāh b. Ibrāhīm Sulṭān of Šīrāz]
This double-page frontispiece to a Shahnama, possibly made for Ibrahim-Sultan's son 'Abdallah and completed in Shiraz in 1444, is the ultimate version of the Timurid feast in a garden: virtually everything seen in any of the three earlier princely Timurid frontispieces is depicted within it. The occasion is perhaps the celebration at a marriage, given the cluster of ladies sharing the carpet, the huge ornamented tent under which a male and a female figure sit, and the male musicians in the foreground
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)The painting on the verso of this folio is the first half of a double-page frontispiece now detached from a Shah-nama manuscript (see CMA 1956.10 for the second half of the frontispiece). The scene does not illustrate a narrative from the Shah-nama, but is likely a representation of the courtly audience for whose entertainment the manuscript was created. The date and style of the painting indicate that it was made during the reign of the Timurid dynasty in Shiraz, Iran.
The first Timurid governor of Shiraz was Timur's grandson...
If we compare the right-hand side of Or. 1403's frontispiece with other frontispieces, such as the right side of Leiden's Shahnama frontispiece (Or. 494), there are several elements in common: the garden setting, trees, stream of water, ruler seated under a tree, attendants and courtiers
This is evidently a painting of the patron who commissioned the manuscript, who remains unidentified.
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