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Also Known As Ṣafī od-Dīn
Born 1253 • Ardabīl • Iran
Died September 12, 1334 (aged 81) • Ardabīl • Iran
Founder Ṣafavīyeh
Subjects Of Study Ṣafavīyeh

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Ardabīl: mausoleums of Sheikh Ṣafī al-Dīn
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Al-Bīrūnī, Afghan commemorative stamp, 1973.
al-Bīrūnī
Persian scholar and scientist
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Sheikh Junayd
Iranian mystic
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Shaykh Ḥaydar
Ṣafavid leader
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Niẓām al-Mulk
Seljuq vizier
The Canon of Medicine
Avicenna
Persian philosopher and scientist
Cyrus II
Cyrus the Great
king of Persia
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Rūmī
Sufi mystic and poet
Darius the Great
Darius I
king of Persia
Bas-relief detail of Xerxes I wearing a robe and crown, holding a flower, from the north courtyard of the treasury at Persepolis, now in the Archaeological Museum in Tehran.
Xerxes I
king of Persia
ʿAbbās I
ʿAbbās I
Ṣafavid shah of Persia
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Nestorius
bishop of Constantinople
Khosrow I, crystal medallion, 6th century; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Khosrow I
king of Persia
Khosrow II
Khosrow II
king of Persia
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al-Ṭabarī
Muslim scholar
Ferdowsī (lower left corner) with three poets in a garden, miniature from a Persian manuscript, 17th century; in the British Library
Ferdowsī
Persian poet
Maḥmūd Ghāzān
Maḥmūd Ghāzān
Mongol ruler of Persia
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Omar Khayyam
Persian poet and astronomer
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al-Kāshī
Persian astronomer and mathematician
Shāpūr II, gold coin, 4th century; in the British Museum, London.
Shāpūr II
king of Persia
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Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī
Persian scholar