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Shah Safi’s Purge: The Bloody Transition After Abbas the Great
In this episode of The Safavid Empire: Persia's Return to Greatness, Lucas and Luna explore the violent consolidation of power under Shah Safi, the grandson of Shah Abbas I. After Abbas's death in 1629, Safi inherited a powerful but paranoid court. Fearing the influence of the Qizilbash and the gholam elite, he launched a devastating purge of his own family and generals. We walk through the key figures he executed: his cousin Imam Quli Khan, the conqueror of Hormuz; the grand vizier Saru Taqi; and several of his own brothers. We discuss how Safi's reign shifted the empire from effective…
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