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The '''Safavid dynasty''', (Persian: دودمان صفوی, <small>romanized:</small> ''Dudmâne Safavi''<ref>* {{cite book|title=Tārīkh-i ʻʻālamārā-yi ʻʻAbbāsī|last1=Afšār|first1=ta·līf-i Iskandar Baig Turkmān. Zīr-i naẓar bā tanẓīm-i fihristhā wa muqaddama-i Īraǧ|date=2003|publisher=Mu·assasa-i Intišārāt-i Amīr Kabīr|isbn=978-964-00-0818-8|edition=Čāp-i 3.|location=Tihrān|pages=17, 18, 19, 79|language=fa}}
(contracted; show full)ut that dynasty which unified the area under one rule and which saved the legacy of ancient Iran from extinction, lasted long in Central Asia..."</ref><ref>Bosworth, C. E.; Crowe, Yolande (2012), "Sāmānids", Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Brill, "(...) a '''Persian''' dynasty which ruled in Transoxania and then in Ḵh̲urāsān (...)"</ref> etc.) it was only during the Buyids period that most of Iran returned to Iranian rule (945
-–1055).<ref>Savory, Roger (1998). "ESMĀʿĪL I ṢAFAWĪ". Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. VIII, Fasc. 6. pp. 628–636.</ref> Founded by Ismail I, the state was one of the largest Iranian empires and among the most powerful of its time;  present-day Iran, the Republic of Azerbaijan, Armenia and most of Georgia;  He ruled parts of the North Caucasus, Iraq, Kuwait, and Afghanistan, as well as present-day Syria, Turkey, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan.<ref>Helen Chapin Metz. ''Iran, a Country study''. 1989. University of Michigan, p. 313.</ref><ref>Emory C. Bogle. ''Islam: Origin and Belief''. University of Texas Press. 1989, p. 145.</ref><ref>Stanford Jay Shaw. History of the Ottoman Empire. Cambridge University Press. 1977, p. 77.</ref><ref>Andrew J. Newman, Safavid Iran: ''Rebirth of a Persian Empire'', I.B. Tauris (March 30, 2006).</ref> 

The Safavid shahs established the Twelver school of Shia Islam as the official religion of the empire.<ref>Roger Savory, "Safavids", Encyclopedia of Islam, 2nd ed.</ref>

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