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Shah Ismail I: The Boy Warlord Who Founded Safavid Persia
In 1501, a fourteen-year-old boy marched out of the forests of Gilan with a band of Turkmen warriors and conquered Tabriz, proclaiming himself Shah of a new Persian empire. This is the story of Shah Ismail I, the charismatic founder of the Safavid dynasty. We trace his childhood in hiding after his father's death, the fervent devotion of the Qizilbash who saw him as a living god, his revolutionary declaration of Twelver Shiism as state religion, and the brutal campaigns that unified Iran after centuries of fragmentation. We also examine the shadow side of his reign—the forced conversion of…
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