-
ethnicity of the
founder of the
Safavid order remains a
subject of
scholarly debate. From
their base in Ardabil, the
Safavids established control over parts...
- 11th
century CE at Ardabil.
Traditional pre-1501
Safavid m****cripts
trace the
lineage of the
Safavids to the
Kurdish dignitary, Firuz-Shah Zarrin-Kolah...
-
During the
reign of the
first Safavid shah (king),
Ismail I, the military, political, and
religious goals of the
Safavids became unified. In 1501, he proclaimed...
- The
Safavid conquest of
Bahrain was a
military campaign launched in 1602 to
capture the
island of
Bahrain from the Portuguese. The
Safavids expelled the...
- Iraq, the
Safavids never gave up
their claim to it, at
least in
court rhetoric. In reality, most of Iraq was
foreign territory to the
Safavids, even though...
-
attempted to
regain the city, but
their efforts were
proven unsuccessful. The
Safavids had
territorial claims over
Kandahar since the
reign of Shah Tahmasp. Humayun...
-
retained influence from Shah
Ismail and the
Safavids. He
embraced the same
rhetoric used
against the
Safavids send
military force to
crush the rebellion...
- from
Syria and
Mount Lebanon (...) Savory,
Roger (2007). Iran
Under the
Safavids. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press. p. 30. ISBN 978-0521042512. Abisaab...
-
Achaemenids and Sasanians. This was a
typical Safavid combination of
Islamic and pre-Islamic
Iranian motifs. The
Safavids also
included and
promoted Turkic and...
-
around 1301, with
Sheikh Safi-ad-din
Ardabili who gave it his name. The
Safavids have
greatly contributed to the
spread of the
Twelvers branch of Shia Islam...
