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Since the mid 13th century, Sheikh Zahed is revered as a spiritual authority and his tomb near Lahijan in Iran's Gilan Province, on the shores of the Caspian Sea, draws numerous pilgrims to the picturesque village of Sheikhanvar.
Sheikh Zahed Gilani was able to attain cultural and religious influence on the Ilkhanid rulers (1256-1353), descendants of Genghis Khan, who followed Seljuq rule.
The Sil-silat-al-nasab-e Safaviyeh or Genealogy of the Safavids, was written by Sheikh Pir Hossein Abdul Zahedi, a 17th century descendant of Sheikh Zahed Gilani.
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  Zahed Gilani - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Since the mid 13th century, Sheikh Zahed is revered as a spiritual authority and his tomb near Lahijan in Iran's Gilan Province, on the shores of the Caspian Sea, draws numerous pilgrims to the picturesque village of Sheikhanvar.
Sheikh Zahed Gilani was able to attain cultural and religious influence on the Ilkhanid rulers (1256-1353), descendants of Genghis Khan, who followed Seljuq rule.
The Sil-silat-al-nasab-e Safaviyeh or Genealogy of the Safavids, was written by Sheikh Pir Hossein Abdul Zahedi, a 17th century descendant of Sheikh Zahed Gilani.
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 We trace our ancestry to a 13th century mystic named Sheikh Zahed Gilani
Sheikh Zahed was contemporaries with the Ilkhanid King Ghazan Khan.
Sheikh Safi, as he was known, is the patriarch and namesake of the mighty Safavid Dynasty.
Sheikh Zahed died in 1301 and is buried in Sheikhanvar near Lahijan.
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 Safavids - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
Sheikh Safi, or Safi-Al-Din Abul Fath Is'haq Ardabili, came from Ardebil, a city in today's Iranian Azerbaijan where his shrine still exists.
He was a disciple of the famed Sufi Grand Master Sheikh Zahed Gilani (1216–1301) of Lahijan.
He was Junayd's grandson and a descendant, on his father's side of Sheikh Safi Al-Din, and, on his mother's side, the grandson of Uzun Hasan, the founder of the Ak Koyunlu.
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 Safavids - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Sheikh Safi, or Safi-Al-Din Abul Fath Is'haq Ardabili, came from Ardebil, a city in South Azerbaijan where his shrine still exists.
He was a disciple of the famed Sufi grand master Sheikh Zahed Gilani (1216 - 1301) of Lahijan.
He was a descendant, from his father's side from Sheikh Safi Al-Din and was the grandson on his mother's side of Uzun Hasan, the founder of the Turkic state of Ak Koyunlu in Azerbaijan.
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 Safavids - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The dynasty was founded by the Sufi master Ismail Safavi, a descendant of Sheikh Safi Al-Din (1252-1334) of Ardebil.
Sheikh Safi was a disciple of the famed Sufi grand master Sheikh Zahed Gilani (1216 - 1301) of Lahijan.
Spiritual Heir to Sheikh Zahed, Safi Al-Din transformed the inherited Zahediyeh Sufi Order into the Safaviyeh, which attained military and political power.
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 Safi Al-Din
The ethnic Persian Safi Al-Din Ardebili (of Ardebil) (1252-1334), eponym of the Safavid Dynasty, was the spiritual heir and son in law of the great Sufi Murshid (Grand Master) Sheikh Zahed Gilani, of Lahijan in Gilan Province in northern Iran.
Sheikh Zahed Gilani also gave his daughter Bibi Fatemeh in wedlock to his favorite disciple.
Sheikh Safi Al-Din, in turn, gave a daughter from a previous marriage in wedlock to Shaikh Zahed Gilani's second-born son.
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 Zahed | Topic Definition | Find the Meaning and Define the Answer of Zahed
The Name "Zahed" was poular as a title bestowed on disciples of Mystic Sufi Orders, upon their initiation.
A famous bearer of the title Zahed was Sheikh Zahed Gilani of Lahijan in Gilan province of northern Iran.
The Persian "Zahed" is pronounced with an "a" as in "art" and an "e" as in "effort".
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 Ali Qapu Gate Unearthed in Sheikh Safi Domed Mausoleum
Sheikh Safi al-Din Ardabili (1252-1334 AD) was the spiritual heir and son in law of the great Sufi Musshid Sheikh Zahed Gilani.
Sheikh Safi was a Sufi and poet; however only a few verses of him called Dobaytis (double verses), which were written in old Tati and Persian, have been remained which have linguistic importance today.
Sheikh Safi al-Din Ardabili Mausoleum is one of the historical and tourism attractions of the city of Ardabil.
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 Safavids   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The dynasty was founded by the Sufi master Ismail Safavi, a descendant of Sheikh Safi Al-Din (1252-1334) of Ardebil.
Sheikh Safi was a disciple of the famed Sufi grand master Sheikh Zahed Gilani (1216 - 1301) of Lahijan.
Spiritual Heir to Sheikh Zahed, Safi Al-Din transformed the inherited Zahediyeh Sufi Order into the Safaviyeh, which attained military and political power.
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 Safavids   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Sheikh Safi, or Safi-ad-Din Abul Fath Ishaq Ardabili, came from Ardebil, a city in South Azerbaijan where his shrine exists till our days.
He was a disciple of the famed Sufi grand master Sheikh Zahed Gilani (1216 - 1301) of Lahijan.
He was a descendant, from his father's side of Sheikh Safi Al-Din and the grandson on his mother's side of Uzun Hasan, the founder of Turkic state of Ak_Koyunlu in Azerbaijan.
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 Safavids
The dynasty was founded by the Sufi master Ismail Safavi, a descendant of Sheikh Safi Al-Din (1252-1334) of Ardebil, and through his maternal line a grandson of Uzun Hassan, ruler of the Turkic tribal Aq Qoyunlou dynasty, in Azerbayjan.
It is said that (according to TOGAN "Origine") he had been part of the conquest of Azerbaijan, together with the Kurdish prince Mamlan bin Wahsudan of the Rawwadid dynasty, in the early 1020s AD and been granted Ardebil as a fiefdom.
His descendant, Sheikh Safis father, Amin-ad-din Gibra'il was a wealthy farmer and his mother was the daughter of Gamal Baruqis Dowlati of the village Baruq near Adebil.
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The Name "Zahed" was popular as a title bestowed on disciples of Mystic Sufi orders upon their initiation.
Since the mid 13th century, Sheikh Zahed is revered as a spiritual authority and his tomb near Lahijan in Iran's Gilan Province, on the shore..
Zaheer Mohamed, a.k.a ZAM, born December 13, 1991, Ontario, Canada, is a Bollywood actor.
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 Zahed Gilani - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Fleeing the Seljuq invasion that would eventually conquer large parts of Persia, his ancestors settled in Gîlân in the late 11th century.
He wed Shaikh Zahed's daughter Bîbî Fâtemeh and, overgoing the interest of Shaikh Zahed's firstborn son, was entrusted with the Grand Master's Zahediyeh Sufi Order, which he transformed into his own, the Safaviyeh (Safavid) Order.
Some 170 years after Shaikh Safi Al-Din's death, the Safaviyeh had gained sufficient political and military power to claim the Throne of (Northern) Iran for the Safavid Heir, Shah Ismail I Safavi.
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 Definition of Safavid dynasty
Sheikh Safi, or Safi-ad-Din Abul Fath Ishaq Ardabili, came from Ardebil, a city in South Azerbaijan where his shrine exists till our days.
Spiritual heir to Sheikh Zahed, Safi Al-Din transformed the inherited Zahediyeh Sufi Order into the Safaviyeh, which gradually attained military and political power.
His descendant, Shah Ismail I established his capital in Tabriz in 1501 with the aid of a militia of Turkic soldiers (called Qizilbash, Turkic for "Red Heads" due to their red head gear), recruited from Azerbaijan and eastern Anatolia.
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 Safavids -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Sheikh Safi, or Safi-Al-Din Abul Fath Is'haq Ardabili, came from (Click link for more info and facts about Ardebil) Ardebil, a city in (Click link for more info and facts about South Azerbaijan) South Azerbaijan where his shrine still exists.
Spiritual heir to Sheikh (Click link for more info and facts about Zahed) Zahed, Safi Al-Din transformed the inherited (Click link for more info and facts about Zahediyeh) Zahediyeh Sufi Order into the (Click link for more info and facts about Safaviyeh) Safaviyeh Order.
He was Junayd's grandson and a descendant, on his father's side of Sheikh Safi Al-Din, and, on his mother's side, the grandson of (Click link for more info and facts about Uzun Hasan) Uzun Hasan, the founder of the (Click link for more info and facts about Ak Koyunlu) Ak Koyunlu.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Safi Al-Din
Sheikh Safi al-Din Ardebili (of Ardebil) (1252-1334), eponym of the Safavid dynasty, was the spiritual heir and son in law of the great Sufi Murshid (Grand Master) Sheikh Zahed Gilani, of Lahijan in Gilan Province in northern Iran.
Sheikh Safi al-Din's has poems in the Iranian dialect of old Tati which is very close to Kurdish.
Minorsky however writes that the families of Sheykh Zahed Gilani and Sheykh Safi al-Din were different.
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 ZAHEDI FAMILY OF 800 YEARS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Sheikh Zahed's secondborn Son and ancestor of the Zahedi Family, Shams Eddin Muhammad, Brother in Law of Sheikh Safi, later wed Safi's Daughter from a previous Marriage, becoming also his Son in Law.
Sheikh Zahed Gilani and Sheikh Safi Eddin Flourished during the Ilkhanid Period
Sheikh Safi Eddin to be his Successor as Head Mystic, overgoing his firstborn son, Gamal Eddin Ali.
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 Sheikh Ahmed Yassin
Sheikh Ahmed Ismail Yassin (Arabic: الشيخ أحمد ياسين) (circa 1937 — March 22, 2004) was the co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist Movement group Hamas.
The anti-terrorist operation, part of an ongoing Israeli action against Hamas-sponsored rebel operations, followed Sheikh Yassin's taunt that Israel's response to the recent Ashdod terror operations was weak, and that Hamas would gain strength as a result.
Israel said the targeted killing was punishment for dozens of suicide attacks by Hamas against Israeli civilians, and meant to thwart further attacks on Yassin's orders.
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 Safavid dynasty - Wikipedia Mirror   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Its founder was the Persian mystic Sheikh Safi al-Din (1252–1334), after whom it was named.
Sheikh Safi al-Din Abdul Fath Is'haq Ardabili came from Ardabil, a city in today's Iranian Azerbaijan where his shrine still exists.
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.
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 ZAHEDI FAMILY of 800 YEARS
Disciple and Son in Law of Sheikh Zahed, Heir to the latter's Zahediyeh Sufi Order.
Sheikh Zahed and Sheikh Safi Flourished during the Ilkhanid Period 1256 1353
Sheikh Zahed, overgoing his first born son, appointing Sheikh SAFI Eddin to be his Successor as Head Mystic
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Eleanor de MontfortEleanor de Montfort (1252–June 1282) was the only daughter of Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, and became the last princess of Wales before the English Conquest in 1283....
Safi Al-DinThe ethnic Persian Safi Al-Din Ardebili (of Ardebil) (1252-1334), eponym of the Safavid Dynasty, was the spiritual heir and son in law of the great Sufi Murshid (Grand Master) Sheikh Zahed Gilani, of Lahijan in Gilan Province in northern Iran.
Sheikh Safi Al-Din, in turn, gave a d...
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 THE SAFAVIDS
Spiritual Heir and Son in Law to Sheikh Zahed, Sheikh Safi was to become the Eponym of the Safavid Dynasty, Iran's most Notable since Antiquity
Zahedi Forebearers, Sheikh Zahed's Son wed Safi's Daughter of 1st Marriage
Sheikh Zahed Appointing Sheikh Safi to be his Successsor as Head Mystic, 1301
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 Persian Language
The tomb and the Khaneghah of Sheikh Ahmad Jami and Shah Ghassem Anwar are among the city's historical sights.
The ancient hills of Baba Kamal, Roudlar, Shahrestaneh, the remains of a Sassanid city in Velashjerd, the Seljuk Dome, the Safavid Building of Sheikh Ali Khani School and the Qajar period indoors bazar, are all indicative of Twiserkan's historical background.
Among the sights and monuments to be seen by tourists that visit Yazd are Masjid-i-Jame', Masjid-i-Mir Chakhmagh, the tomb of Molla Emam, the tomb of Shamseddin, the tomb of Seyed Rokneddin, the tomb of Sheikh Joneid, Chak Chak, Pir-i-Naraki, Masjid-i-Davazdah Emam, Zendan-i-Sekandar, and the Nakhl at Meidan-i-Amir Chakhmagh.
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