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The Safavid Siege of Herat 1587: Abbas Takes the Crown
In 1587, a teenage prince named Abbas rode from Herat to Qazvin to claim the Safavid throne. This episode digs into the siege that made him — and the Qizilbash infighting that nearly destroyed Persia before he got there. We follow the Takkal and Ustajlu factions, the scheming of Murshid Qoli Khan, and the blind Shah Mohammad Khodabanda's last stand. Lucas and Luna break down how Abbas I, still in his teens, navigated the treacherous politics of the Qizilbash to become the empire's greatest shah. If you've heard about Shah Abbas's later glories, this is the origin story: a boy caught between…
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