Shah Ismail Safavi
Ismail Safavi,
Ismail, 1501 - 1524 Turkmen
Prince who used a religious brotherhood to found
the Safavid Dynasty.
Father
of Shah Tahmasp Safavi, 1524 - 1576
Claimed
to be the Mahdi.
Father
of Shah Tahmasp
Shah Ismail,
the Safavi,— who eight years previously had
overthrown the Turkmen dynasty of the "
White Sheep " in Azerbaijan, and had set
upon the conquest of all Persia,—now marched
into Khorasan. Here he defeated and slew Shaybani
Khan in the vicinity of Merv, thereby making
himself master of the whole country.
Bayazid
was induced to yield a peace upon such conditions
by the rapid rise of the Persian power on the
eastern frontier of his dominions, under Shah
Ismail, the founder of the Safavi (commonly
called the Sofi) dynasty. Shah Ismail had
encroached upon the Ottoman territory near Tokat,
and when forced to retreat by the governor of the
province, had taken possession of Marash.
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