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Persia (once was Persia).
Persia.
Persia's absorption of Media and then conquest of the Babylonian Empire.
They called it the Kingdom of Persia. We call it the Persian Empire.
Persia was a client state of Media. Persia took Media over and used the combined power to take over the Babylonian Empire.
Isfahan was the capital city of the Safavid Empire. The Safavid Empire was considered Persia. IF you need more info, look up the "Safavid Empire"
Iraq and Persia.
Shah Ismail I.
Shah Ismail
The Safavid Empire made Persia into a predominantly Shiite-State by aggressively repressing Sunni Islam.
The Safavid (not Salavid) Empire was ruled by the Safavid dynasty.
The Sunni and the Shia Islam. Shia Islam was made Persia's state religion; Sunni clerics were either killed or exiled from Persia.
The Safavid dynasty ruled one of the greatest Persian empires since the Muslim conquest of Persia and established the Twelve school of Shi'a Islam as the official religion of their empire, marking an important turning points in Muslim history.
The Ottomans were Sunni Muslims, the Safavids Shia Muslims.Ottoman Sultans saw it as part of their religious duty to wage war on what they saw as the heretical Shias. Further, the Ottoman empire was based on constant expansion (when it stopped expanding,the empire went into a long decline). Safavid Persia was directly to the east of the Ottoman empire.
There were Sufis in the Safavid Empire, but they were often persecuted and marginalized.
Yes, they did control the Safavid Empire.
Yes her father is Lebanese and From Safavid. And Safavid is Azerbaijanian empire.