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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)the landowning nobility of '''Kurdish''' origin (...)"</ref><ref>Bowering, Gerhard (2015). Islamic Political Thought: An Introduction. Princeton University Press. {{ISBN|978-1-4008-6642-7}}. p. 13, "The '''Safavids''', of '''Kurdish''' origin and Turkic-speaking, arose from the Sunni Sufi fraternity of the Safawis organized in Azerbaijan by Safı al-Din (d. 1334) (...)"</ref><ref>
E. J. van Donzel (1994). Islamic desk reference. BRILL. p. 222, "Several dynasties, such as the Marwanids of Diyarbakir, the Ayyubids, the Shaddadis and possibly the '''Safawids''', as well as prominent personalities, were of '''Kurdish''' origin."</ref><ref>Bowering, Gerhard; Crone, Patricia; Kadi, Wadad; Mirza, Mahan; Stewart, Devin J.; Zaman, Muhammad Qasim (2013). The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought. Princeton University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-691-13484-0}}. p. xii, "The Turkic-speaking '''Safavids''' of '''Kurdish''' origin arose from a Sunni Sufi fraternity that was organized in Azerbaijan by Safı al-Din (d. 1334) (...)"</ref><ref>Manz, Beatrice Forbes (2021). Nomads in the Middle East. Cambridge University Press. p. 169, "The '''Safavid dynasty''' was of '''Iranian''' – probably '''Kurdish''' – extraction and had its beginnings as a Sufi order located at Ardabil near the eastern border of Azerbaijan, in a region favorable for both agriculture and pastoralism."</ref>) origin. Also, the origin of the dynasty was based on Kurdistan.<ref>Lambton, Ann Katherine Swynford; Lewis, Bernard. (1984). The Cambridge History of Islam. Cambridge University Press. p. 394, "Such evidence as we have seems to suggest that the family hailed from '''Kurdistān'''."</ref> ⏎
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E.J. van Donzel says;<ref>E. J. van Donzel (1994). Islamic desk reference. BRILL. p. 222.</ref> <blockquote>Several dynasties, such as the Marwanids of Diyarbakir, the Ayyubids, the Shaddadis and possibly the '''Safawids''', as well as prominent personalities, were of '''Kurdish''' origin.</blockquote>

== History ==
The state was founded by Ismail I in July 1501 in Tabriz, declaring himself Shah.<ref>Ismāʿīl I, in Britannica, (2011).</ref> Ismail's rule is one of the most vital in Iranian history.  Prior to accession to the throne in 1501, Iran had not existed as a unified country under native Iranian rule since it was conquered by the Arabs eight and a half centuries ago, but was controlled by a number of Arab caliphs, Turkic sultans and Mongol khans. Although many Iranian dynasties ca(contracted; show full)[[Category:History of Azerbaijan]]
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