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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)s, Ira M. (2012). Islamic Societies to the Nineteenth Century: A Global History. Cambridge University Press. p. 492, "'''Shaykh Safi al—Din''' [...] a Sunni/Sufi religious teacher descended from a '''Kurdish''' family (...)"</ref><ref>V. Minorsky, "The Poetry of Shāh Ismā‘īl I," Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 10/4 (1942): 1006–53.</ref> mystic Safi-ad-din Ardabili.
<ref>Tapper, Richard. (1997), Frontier nomads of Iran: a political and social history of the Shahsevan, Cambridge University Press, p. 39, "The '''Safavid''' Shahs who ruled Iran between 1501 and 1722 descended from Sheikh '''Safi ad-Din of Ardabil''' (1252-1334). [...] Their own origins were obscure: probably of '''Kurdish''' or Iranian extraction (...)"</ref>

== Origins ==
Before the Safavids, Iran was ruled by the Aq Qoyunlu, a Turkic<ref>The Book of Dede Korkut (F.Sumer, A.Uysal, W.Walker ed.). University of Texas Press. 1972. p. Introduction. {{ISBN|0-292-70787-8}}. "Better known as '''Turkomans''' (...) the interim '''Ak-Koyunlu''' and Karakoyunlu dynasties (...)"</ref><ref>Mikaberidze, Alexander (2011). Conflict and Conquest in the Islamic World: A Historical Encyclope(contracted; show full)[[Category:History of Azerbaijan]]
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