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The Safavid dynasty had its origin in the Safavid order of Sufism, which was established in the city of Ardabil in the Iranian Azerbaijan region. [6] It was an Iranian dynasty of Kurdish origin, [ 7 ] but during their rule they intermarried with Turkoman , [ 8 ] Georgian , [ 9 ] Circassian , [ 10 ] [ 11 ] and Pontic Greek [ 12 ] dignitaries ...
The Safavid dynasty was founded about 1501 by Shāh Ismā'īl I. [55] ... The English East India Company also began to take an interest in Iran, ...
Herat, Safavid Iran (modern-day Afghanistan) 1 October 1588 – 19 January 1629 19 January 1629 (aged 57) Ashraf, Iran He came to the throne with the help of qezelbash rulers. Early peace with the Ottoman Empire and buying time to reorganize the government and the army. Moved the capital of the Safavid dynasty from Qazvin to Isfahan. Attack on ...
Junayd's grandson, Ismail, further altered the nature of the order when he founded the Safavid empire in 1501 and proclaimed Twelver Shi'ism as the state religion, at which point he imported Twelver Shia Ulama largely from Lebanon and Syria to transform the order into a Twelver Shi'i dynasty.
By the mid-18th century, most Safavid troops were still using traditional weapons. It was not until partway through the rule of Nader Shah (1736-1747), founder of the Afsharid dynasty, that the majority of an Iranian empire's troops would be equipped with firearms for the first time. [29]
The Sophy, also spelled Sofi, Sophie, Sophi, or Soffi, was a reference to the ruler of the Safavid dynasty of Iran. [1] Even though Iran remained known in the West by the exonym Persia (see Name of Iran), which had been coined in "the days of the ancient Greeks", from the time of Shah Abbas I ("the Great"; r. 1588–1629), the ruler of the nation came to be known as the "Sophy", itself a ...
Soltan Hoseyn was born in 1668 in the royal harem. [3] He was the eldest son of Shah Solayman (r. 1666–1694) and a Circassian woman. He had the same upbringing as his father, being raised in the royal harem, and thus having limited life experience and more or less no expertise in the affairs of the country. [4]
The oldest extant book on the genealogy of the Safavid family is Safvat as-safa and was written by Ibn Bazzaz in 1350, a disciple of Sheikh Sadr-al-Din Safavi, the son of Sheikh Safi ad-din Ardabili. According to Ibn Bazzaz, the Sheikh was a descendant of a Kurdish man named Firooz Shah Zarrin Kolah who was from Sanjar, southeast of Diyarbakir .