Iran / Persia: Ismaʻil, the Persian Ambassador of Tahmasp, Shah of Persia, at the court of Sultan Suleiman I, 10th Ottoman Emperor (r.1520-1566). Engraving by Melchior Lorck (1526-1583), Istanbul, c.1559

Ismāʻīl (later known as Ismāʻīl II), was a son of the 2nd Safavid ruler Shah Ṭahmāsp I (1524-1576) and a diplomatic representative to the court of the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman I. He became the 3rd Safavid ruler of Iran in 1576 on the death of his father.

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