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The Safavid order, (Persian: طریقت صفویه) also called the Safaviyya (Persian: صفویه), was a Sufi order (Tariqa)[1][2] founded by the Kurdish[3][4] mystic Safi-ad-Din Ardabili (1252–1334 AD). It held a prominent place in the society and politics of North Western Iran in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, but today it is best known for having given rise to the Safavid dynasty.
- ^ https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1345, Sheikh Safi al-Din
- ^ "Imamzadah Shaykh Ṣafi al-Din Ardabili | Exterior view of Shaykh Safi Tomb. The courtyard wall of Chilakhana courtyard appears in the background, while the Haramkhana is seen in the right foreground".
- ^ Newman, Andrew J., Safavid Iran: Rebirth of a Persian Empire, (I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., 2006), 152.
- ^ R.M. Savory. Ebn Bazzaz. Archived 2009-05-29 at the Wayback Machine Encyclopædia Iranica