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Ismail I
إسماعيل الصفوي ar شاه اسماعیل یکم fa
Founder and first shah of Safavid Iran
- Child of Shaykh Haydar and Halima Begum
- Married to Tajlu Begum
- Dated 17 July 1487 CE – 23 May 1524 CE
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Life
Roles and affiliation
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
Belonged to
Offices held 1
- 22 December 1501 CE – 23 May 1524 CE list of Safavid monarchs Number 1 in the sequence Succeeded by Tahmasp I
Family
The family of Ismail I
Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.
Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.
The family as a list · 12
Family 12
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a religious affiliation held by the whole house · continuous rule · a marriage · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- child of (mother) Halima Begum Mother of Ismail I
- child of (father) Shaykh Haydar the sixth leader of the Safavid order and father of Shah Ismail I (1460–1488)
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of the house Safavid dynasty dynasty from Safi-ad-din Ardabili generation and ruler of Safavid Iran (1501–1736) - parent of (child) Bahram Mirza governor of Khorasan
- parent of (child) Elkas Mirza Safavid prince, governor and military officer
- parent of (child) Mahinbanu Sultan daughter of Ismail I of Persia
- parent of (child) Parikhan Khanum (1506–1540) safavid princess (1506–1540]
- parent of (child) Sam Mirza Safavid prince and Persian poet
- parent of (child) Tahmasp I Safavid Shah of Iran from 1524 to 1576
- partner of Behruzeh Khanum concubine of Ismail I
- sibling of Ali Mirza Safavi the seventh leader of the Safavid order and brother of Shah Ismail I (1488–1494)
- married to Tajlu Begum Principal consort of Safavid shah Ismail I (c.1485–1540)
Transmission
Teachers and students
Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.
What this means
In the direction the records give it. This is not biological ancestry and it is not institutional succession: a student who inherited no office still received the teaching, and an heir who received the office may have been taught by someone else entirely. It does not imply that teacher and student agreed.
Studied under 1
Ismail I founder and first shah of Safavid Iran Religious context
What the records tie them to
Founded, supported, associated with — as third parties recorded it.
What this means
A founding is an attribution, usually contested, and not a claim that the tradition began fully formed. Patronage is an act, not a belief: it says nothing about the religion of a population, and nothing about the patron’s own practice in every period of a life. Domains are as sources record them — for a saint, usually a patronage — rarely exclusive, and not the same in every account.
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Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
16 statements on this record
- 2 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 14 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 8 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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