Suleiman I of Persia

Safi II or I. Sulaiman (* 1647, † 29 July 1694 in Isfahan, buried in Qom ) was from 1666 to 1694 Shah of Persia.

Safi II was the son of Abbas II and the Circassian Nikahat Khanum and thus a ruler from the dynasty of the Safavids. He succeeded his father on October 2, 1666 Safi II on the throne. But his first year was overshadowed by many natural disasters. The astrologers at the court came to the conclusion that Safi II had been crowned early to the Shah and that this was the reason for the disaster. Thus, the coronation ceremony on 20 March 1668 repeated under his new name Sulaiman I..

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After his second enthronement Safi II changed its previous policy. He reduced the army strength and the state apparatus to guide the state economically. Instead of his ministers and advisers, he established a council, consisting of palace eunuchs. The power of this new council was so great that they even specified the successor Safis II. The king himself drew the Council of the astrologers following weeks and months from the public gaze, so that the real power lay with the council and his mother. During his reign there were in Georgia and Kurdistan riots and raids of the Uzbeks in Khorasan and the Baluchis in Kerman. Safi II died on July 29, 1694 and was succeeded by his son Sultan Hosein after.