a few days late (the Safavid Ismail I apparently became Padishah on December 22nd 1501, Shab-e Yalda "Reverse Eve," according to a Safavid-era chronicler, Qāsim Beg Ḥayātī Tabrīzī)
Background taken from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Timurid_and_Aq_Qoyunlu_domains,_late_15th_century.png Slightly modified, but the image creator does not endorse my changes.
