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File:Sheikh-safi.jpg|thumb|Sheikh Safi al-Din's tomb '''Sheikh Safi-ad-din Is'haq Ardabili''' (of Ardabil) (1252-1334) (), eponym of the Safavid dynasty, was the spiritual heir and son in law of the great Sufism|Sufi Murshid (Grand Master) Sheikh Zahed Gilani, of Lahijan in Gilan Province in northern Iran. He was of Persian people|PersianMeyers Konversations-Lexikon, Vol. XII, p. 873, original German edition, ''" Persien (Geschichte des neupersischen Reichs)"'', (LINK) and Kurdish people|Kurdish background EBN BAZZAZ Encyclopedia Iranica. Most of what we know about him comes from the Safvat as-safa, a hagiography written by one of his followers. Sheikh Safi al-Din's has composed poems in the Iranian dialect of Ancient Azari language|old Tati which is very close to Kurdish. He was a seventh-generation descendant of Firuz Shah Zarrin Kolah, a local Iranian dignitaryBarry D. Wood, The Tarikh-i Jahanara in the Chester Beatty Library: an illustrated manuscript of the "Anonymous Histories of Shah Isma'il", Islamic Gallery Project, Asian Department Victoria & Albert Museum London, Routledge, Volume 37, Number 1 / March 2004, Pp: 89 - 107.. [[File:Dast.jpg|thumb|right|200px|An etched figure of a giant hand , in Safi-ad-din Ardabili Mausoleum, showing Twelver Shi'a sign of Ahl al-Kisa|Panj-tan-e Āl-e Abā]] Sheikh Safi al-Din inherited Sheikh Zahed Gilani's Sufism|Sufi order, the "Zahediyeh", which he later transformed into his own, the "Safaviyeh". Sheikh Zahed Gilani also gave his daughter Bibi Fatima|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. Over the following 170 years, the Safaviyeh Order gained political and military power, finally culminating in the foundation of the Safavid dynasty. Only a very few verses of Sheikh Safi al-Din's poetry, called ''Dobayti''s (''double verses''), have survived. Written in old Tati language (Iran)|Tati and Persian language|Persian, they have linguistic importance todayPayvand News. According to Minorsky, Sheykh Safi al-Din's ancestor Firuz-shah was a rich man, lived in Gilan and then Kurdish kings gave him Ardabil and its dependencies. Minorsky refers to Sheykh Safi al-Din's claims tracing back his origins to Ali ibn Abu Talib, but expresses uncertainty about this.Minorsky Vladimir, The Turks, Iran and the Caucasus in the Middle Ages. Preface by J.A. Boyle. Variorum Reprints, London 1978; page 517-518 The male lineage of the Safavid family given by the oldest manuscript of the Safwat as-Safa is:"(Shaykh) Safi al-Din Abul-Fatah Ishaaq the son of Al-Shaykh Amin al-din Jebrail the son of al-Saaleh Qutb al-Din Abu Bakr the son of Salaah al-Din Rashid the son of Muhammad al-Hafiz al-Kalaam Allah the son of Javaad the son of Pirooz al-Kurdi al-Sanjani (Piruz Shah Zarin Kolah the Kurd of Sanjan)"Z. V. Togan, "Sur l’Origine des Safavides," in Melanges Louis Massignon, Damascus, 1957, III, pp. 345-57 similar to the ancestry of Sheykh Safi al-Din's father in law, Sheikh Zahed Gilani, who also hailed from Sanjan, in Greater Khorassan. (Other transliterations for Safi al-Din: Safi al-Din, Safi ad-Dîn, Safi Eddin, Safi od-Din, Safi El-Din, Safieddin, Safioddin)

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Literature

- Monika Gronke, ''Derwische im Vorhof der Macht: sozial- und wirtschaftsgeschichte Nordwestirans im 13. und 14. Jahrhundert,'' Wiesbaden 1993
- Mazzaoui, Michel, ''The Origins of the Safavids: Shi'ism, Sufism, and the Gulat,'' Wiesbaden, West Germany: F. Steiner, 1972.

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- Square Kufic inscription on Sheikh Safi al-Din's tomb Category:Ardabil Category:Safaviyeh order Category:Safavids Category:Iranian poets Category:People from Ardabil Category:1252 births Category:1334 deaths Category:Al-Moussawi family

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