Safi-ad-Din Ardabili

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Safi-ad-Din Esḥāq Ardabili (Persian: صفی‌الدین اسحاق اردبیلی, romanized: Ṣafī ad-Dīn Isḥāq Ardabīlī; 1252/3 – 1334) was a poet, mystic, teacher and Sufi master of Kurdish origins. He was the son-in-law and spiritual heir of the Sufi master Zahed Gilani, whose order—the Zahediyeh—he reformed and renamed the Safaviyya, which he led from 1301 to 1334. The oldest extant book on the genealogy of the Safavid family and the only one that is pre-1501 is titled Safwat as-Safa and was written by Ibn Bazzaz, a disciple of Sheikh Sadr-al-Din Ardabili, the son of the Sheikh Safi-ad-din Ardabili. Safi was the eponymous ancestor of the Safavid dynasty, which ruled Iran from 1501 to 1736.

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