| There was no better way to remind the restorer of the Ottoman Empire of the Safavid king. |
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| This distinction between the Alavid and the Safavid versions of Shi'ism was emphasized by Dr. Ali Shari'ati. |
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| As governor of Isfahan, he had all the Safavid palaces destroyed, leaving only their splendid mosques. |
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| According to some analysts, the Iranian revolution has revived the Alavid Shi'ism, and the Safavid Shi'ism is on the decline. |
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| This capital of the 17th century Safavid dynasty can keep a visitor in awe for days. |
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| It is an old bread, appearing in recipes from the Safavid era of the 16th-18th centuries, and used to be made in people's houses. |
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| This not only has led to sweeping statements, but also to a misunderstanding of the Safavid political system and economy, and also to many factual mistakes. |
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| The Safavid state in Iran was founded in 1501 by Shiite tribes who believed that Shah Ismail was divine, and perhaps that he was the herald of the Shiite Mahdi or messiah. |
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| For those who missed it, the Safavid period, from 1501 to 1736, is regarded as a Golden Age of Iranian civilisation. |
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| He describes the Safavid, Qajar, and Pehlavi dynasties and how they sought to balance the three ethnic tribes within Iran to try to forge a nationalist identity. |
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| Zarqawi never made any secret that his real target was the Safavid heartland itself, Iran. |
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| What we are witnessing today is an entirely new form of politics, returning to Safavid times and anchored in Mashhad while rejecting Qom. |
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| The Shi'as were ruthlessly suppressed and they retreated to Persia, joining with the local groups of Shi'a and eventually forming their own state under the Safavid Shahs. |
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| He was defeated and he fled to Persia, where he spent nearly ten years as an embarrassed guest at the Safavid court of Shah Tahmasp. |
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| Extensive textual and pictorial sources also show that poppy cultivation and opium consumption were widespread in Safavid Iran and Mughal India. |
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| It is the capital of the province of Isfahan, and was also the third capital of the Safavid Empire. |
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| It was the first capital of the Safavid Empire, and is now the capital of the province of East Azerbaijan. |
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| The Bureau recalled that the 1995 UNESCO Mission recommended that the site be redefined and extended in order to include key characteristics of the Safavid urban planning scheme. |
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| The karvanseray that is scheduled to house the guests of Bisotoun Rock Climbing Festival belongs to the peridod of Shah Abbas II, 16th Century Safavid Iran. |
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| The Shia Safavid dynasty rose to power in 1501 and later conquered all of Iran. |
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| By the 1500s, Ismail I of Ardabil established the Safavid Empire, with his capital at Tabriz. |
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| John Chardin, a French traveler of the 17th century who visited Safavid Persia, spoke approvingly of the vast cotton farms of Persia. |
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| It was in the late 16th and 17th centuries that the artistry of the Persian carpet peaked, under the Safavid ruler Shah 'Abbas. |
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| Humayun's exile in Persia established diplomatic ties between the Safavid and Mughal Courts, and led to increasing Persian cultural influence in the Mughal Empire. |
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| The consolidation of the Ottoman and Safavid empires in the Middle East led to a revival of overland trade, interrupted sporadically by warfare between them. |
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| The country established diplomatic relations with the Safavid dynasty of Persia, Ottomans of Hejaz, Mughal Empire in India, and Ethiopia, as well. |
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| In this area two caravansaries or inns can be noted, built of stone and the type of architecture shows that both were constructed simultaneously during the Safavid era. |
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| It was also part of the Median, Achaemenid, Hellenistic, Parthian, Sassanid, Roman, Rashidun, Umayyad, Abbasid, Ayyubid, Mongol, Safavid, Afsharid, and Ottoman empires. |
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