Safi ad-Din Ardabili

Safi ad-Din Safi ad -Din Ardabili also Is'haq Ardabili (Persian شیخ صفی الدین اردبیلی; seyh Safi ad -Din Ardabili; * 1252, † 1334 in Ardabil ) was a cleric from Iran. He was ancestor and eponym of the Safavid Dynasty. According to the chronology of Silsilat al - Nasab Safawiyya, of the traditional pedigree of the Safavids ( originated in the 17th century), Safi ad -Din was a descendant of a certain Firuz Shah Zarrin - Kullah al - KORDI al - Gilani and thus Kurdish- Persian descent.

Safi ad -Din decided to go to Shiraz to go there with Sheikh Najib al -Din Buzghusch as murid apprenticed at the age of twenty. But when he arrived in Shiraz, he learned that the Sheikh had died. In search of a spiritual teacher, he became aware of the Sheikh Zahed Gilani Sufigeistlichen. 1276/1277 he found Zahed Gilani in a village on the Caspian Sea, and went with him into teaching.

Safi ad -Din later became the son-in- Zahed Gilani and married his daughter Bibi Fatima. Safi ad -Din was also the heritage of Zahed Gilani and took over after his death in 1301, the leadership of the Sufi Order of Zahediyya, which he later renamed Safawiyya. This succession aroused among the followers Zahed Gilani and especially his sons great resentment.

Works

Safi ad - Dīn some collections of poems have survived, of which especially the " Dobayt " ( " couplets " ) collection today also has linguistic meaning. They were mostly written in the altaserbaidschanischen language which belonged to the Middle Iranian languages ​​, and to a lesser extent in Persian language.

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• Sufi
• Islamic Founder
• Music theorists
• Kurd
• Born in 1252
• Died in 1334
• Man