• The Safvat as-safa (Persian: صفوة‌الصفا), also spelled Safvat al-safa or Safwat al-safa, is a hagiography of the Sufi shaykh Safi-ad-Din Ardabili (1252–1334)...
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  • 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...
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    descriptive and traditional appellations". In the pre-Safavid written work Safvat as-Safa (oldest manuscripts from 1485 and 1491), the origin of the Safavids...
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  • eponym of the Safavid dynasty of Iran. In the pre-Safavid written work Safvat as-safa (oldest known extant manuscripts from 1485 and 1491), the origin of...
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    doctrine. In 1533, Shah Tahmasp I commissioned a new edition of the Safvat as-safa, Shaikh Ṣāfī's genealogy. It was rewritten in order to support the royal...
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  • Ibn Bazzaz (Persian: ابن بزاز; fl. 1385) was the author of the Safvat as-safa, a Persian hagiography of the Sufi shaykh Safi-ad-din Ardabili (died 1334)...
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    lineage of the Safavid family given by the oldest manuscript of the Safwat as-Safa is:"(Shaykh) Safi al-Din Abul-Fatah Ishaaq the son of Al-Shaykh Amin al-Din...
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    1570 was published. He also commissioned Abol-Fath Hosseini to rewrite Safvat as-safa, the oldest surviving text regarding Safi-ad-din Ardabili and the Sufi...
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    the order into a Twelver Shi'i dynasty. Safavid dynasty family tree Safvat as-Safa Safavid dynasty Musha'sha'iyyah, a rival Isma'īlī Shi'ā sect https://whc...
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  • Tabriz) recorded and also translated by Ibn Bazzaz Ardabili in the Safvat al-Safa: «علیشاه چو در آمد گستاخ وار شیخ را در کنار گرفت و گفت حاضر باش بزبان...
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    meaning “perfect”; Persian: تکودار) (c. 1246  – 10 August 1284), also known as Sultan Ahmad (reigned 1282–1284), was the sultan of the Ilkhanate, son of...
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  • existence is proposed on the details of a legend in Safvat as-safa, a work by Ibn Bazzaz who mentions Akhsitan as ruler of Shirvan. According to legend, Shah...
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    and Baydu fled to Khorasan, to Arghun's encampment while several emirs such as Taghachar and Doladai were arrested. Tekuder's next step was to send Alinaq...
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    uncle Ahmad Tekuder in the kurultai. Tekuder was duly chosen as sultan. He is also known as Sultan Ahmad. Tekuder's election brought Juvayni brothers to...
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    years, individual members of the Chobanids sided with various factions, such as Arpa or Hasan Buzurg. The latter ended up marrying Delsad Katun, who provided...
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  • regions. Demasq became viceroy of Azerbaijan and Iraq. According to Safvat as-safa, he met Safi-ad-Din Ardabili in Karabakh in 1320 who was visiting with...
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    is located at the center of Old Bangalore near the Kalasipalya bus stand, as a tourist spot. Entry fee is ₹20 for Indian citizens, while for foreign visitors...
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    the validity of the 'official' Safavid family tree contained in the Safvat al-Safa, and argued convincingly that the ancestors of Shaykh Safi al-Din, who...
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    (1921–2013) – musician Ghāsem Jebeli (fa) (1927–2013) – singer Dāriush Safvat (1928–2013) – musician Homāyoun Khorram (1930–2013) – musician Mortezā Pāshāei...
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