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	Turkish Victory week: 26 Aug.1071 -30 Aug.1922 - Page 8 - Iran Defence Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		these tribes accepted safaviyeh in large numbers in the mid 15th century, and in fact during the time of sultan selim, most of the turkoman tribes living in anatolia had accepted safaviyeh, and they started being a direct threat for the ottomans.
		safaviyeh was not a political force before the appearance of the kizilbashs, it was just a heretic shia tariqah, which was founded by a persian who had little understanding of shiism.
		safaviyeh or safavis were nothing but ghulats, heretics.
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	ooBdoo
		Originally Safaviyeh was a spiritual response to the upheavals and unrest in northwest Iran/eastern Anatolia in the decades following the Mongol invasion.
		In the fifteenth century, the Safaviyeh gradually gained political and military clout in the power vacuum precipitated by the decline of the Timurid dynasty.
		After becoming the Safaviyeh leader in 1447, Sheikh Junayd - a descendant of Sheikh Safi Al-Din - transformed it into a revolutionary Shi'ite movement with the goal of seizing power in Iran.
	www.oobdoo.com /wikipedia/index.php?title=Safavids (3350 words)

	Safavid dynasty
		The Safavids were descended from Sheykh Safi ad Din (1253-1334) of Ardabil, head of the Sufi order of Safaviyeh (Safawiyah), but about 1399 exchanged their Sunnite affiliation for Shi'ism.
		The Safavids were established Shi'ite Islam as a state religion of Iran, which became a major factor in the emergence of unified national consciousness’ among the various ethnic and linguistic elements of the country.
		Esfahan fell to the Ghilzai Afghans of Qandahar in 1722; seven years later Shah Tahmasp II recovered Esfahan and ascended the throne, only to be deposed in 1732 by his Afsharid lieutenant Nader Qoli Beg (the future Nadir Shah)
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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Safavid dynasty
		The Safavids (Persian: صفویان) were a native Iranian dynasty from Iranian Azarbaijan that ruled from 1501 to 1736, and which established Shi'a Islam as Iran's official religion and united its provinces under a single Iranian sovereignty, thereby reigniting the Persian identity and acting as a bridge to modern Iran.
		Its founder was the Persianmystic Sheikh Safi al-Din (1252–1334), after whom it was named.
		During the 15th century, the Ottomans expanded across Anatolia and centralized control by persecuting Shi'ism.
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	Safavid dynasty - Wikipedia Mirror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Safavid dynasty had its origins in a long established Sufi order, called the Safaviyeh, which had flourished in Azarbaijan since the early 14th century.
		Its founder was the Persian mystic Sheikh Safi al-Din (1252–1334), after whom it was named.
		The Safiviyeh came to be led by a fifteen-year old, Ismail I, who claimed descent from Sheikh Safi Al-Din [1].
	www.wiki-mirror.be /index.php/Safavids (2933 words)

	Brief History of Iran (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The real division came after the Islamic conquests and the establishment of the Tahirids in Khurasan (9th century) during the Abbasid Caliphate.
		From that time until the Safavids (Safaviyeh), western and eastern Persia had significantly different political fortunes, except during partial or brief reunifications such as Buyid Persia (9th-11th centuries), Seljuk Persia (11th century), Khwarizm (12th century), and under the heels of the Mongol Empire (13th century) and of Timur (Tamerlane) and the Timurids (14th century).
		During the dissolution of the Timurid Empire (15th century), western Persia fell to the Akkoyunlu Turks of Diyarbakir (eastern Turkey).
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	safi_al-din (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Sheikh Safi al-Din inherited Sheikh Zahed Gilani's Sufi order, the "Zahediyeh", which he later transformed into his own, the "Safaviyeh".
		Sheikh Safi al-Din, in turn, gave a daughter from a previous marriage in wedlock to Shaikh Zahed Gilani's second-born son.
		Over the following 170 years, the Safaviyeh Order gained political and military power, finally culminating in the foundation of the Safavid dynasty.
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		When Safaviyeh cribbed accipere 3 September Affronti swiftly siddiqui alongside the burning theoretic and monitored 247 sashimi.
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	Yekom Consulting Engineers
		Sewage Discharge, Collection and Sanitary Treatment Iran as a country with ancient civilization has been familiar with the process of effluent reuse and benefited from it since several centuries ago.
		For example, it can be indicated to the remaining traces of sewage discharge, collection and treatment network in Shoush Area and the use of human and animal wastes to generate biogas, became common by Sheikh Bahaie, a scientist from Safaviyeh Dynasty era.
		Before establishment of Water and Wastewater Division, the sewage collection, discharge and treatment projects of Yekom were performed by Processing and Agro-Industry Division of the Company, which was involved in design and supervision for construction of sewage discharge, collection and treatment systems of industrial sites.
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	ZAHEDI FAMILY OF 800 YEARS
		The Sufi Orders Zahediyeh and Safaviyeh culminate in the Safavid Dynasty
		Originating from the ancient Iranian city of Sanjan, fleeing the Seljuqs in Khorasan Province, the Family settled in Gilan in the mid 11th century
		Heir of the latter's Zahediyeh Sufi Order Founder of the SAFAVIYEH Sufi Order Eponym of the Safavid Dynasty
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		His research interests include the Shi'i world, the Safavid era and contemporary Iran.
		He has published extensively, including the following books: Tarikh Tashayoh Dar Iran (1997); Safaviyeh Dar Arseye Din, Siasat Va Farhang (2000); Maghalat Tarikh (13 volumes) (1997-2006).
		The Constitutional Revolution saw a flowering of young poets who wrote mostly on social and political subjects and published them immediately in newspapers and political tracts.
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