shah ismail safavi was from Sheikh safi alddin Ardebili household who were shiite.
they are Wahhabi that is a sunni sect.
no. the shiiah is sect within Islam religion.
Sunni sect is the largest sect of Islam. Shia are in very less number. Sufi is not a sect. It is a way of life for some of the Muslims who seek pleasure of Almighty Allah by excessive prayer and devotion.
The Shiite Muslims
they are two sect or fraction of Islam religion. Sunnism as Majority and Shiite as minority are two main sects in Islam religion.
in religious sciences we apply sect in place of faction.hence it is better to say that we have two sects in islam religion shiite as minority and sunni as majority.
The Sunnis belong to Islam and Shiites are a false sect who claim to be part of Islam.
in islam religion we have two major sect,the Sunni as majority and the Shiite as minority.
A member of a Second Adventist celibate sect that follows Johann Georg Rapp is a rappist.
The Safavid Empire is primarily made of SHIITE MUSLIMS, because that was the official religion of the empire. Numerous Persian Sunni Muslims were forcibly converted to Shiite Islam under Safavid rule.
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Shiite Islam. Of course, the Safavid Empire, especially Shah Ismail announced Shiite Islam as the official sect in the territory and because of these the numbers of the shiites increased. In other words, in this period, Ismail who was of the household of Sheikh Safi al-Din Ardaili (d.735 AH/1334 CE) a Sufi master and also a Shiite, begn a revolt in Ardabil with three hundred Sufis who were disciples of his forefathers with the aim of establishing an independent and powerful Shiite country. In this way, he begn the conquest of the Persia and overcame the local feudal princes. After a series of the bloody wars with local rulers and also the Ottomans, who held the title of the caliph, he succeeded in forming Persia piece by piece into a country and in making Shiism the official religion in his kingdom. After the death of the Shah Ismail, other Safavid kings reigned in Persia until the 12th/18th century AH/CE and each continued to recognize Shiism as the official religion of the country and further strengthened its hold upon the land. At the height of their power, during the reign of Shah Abbas, the Safavids were able to increase the territorial expansion and the population of Persia to twice its present size. As for other muslim lands, the Shiite populations continued the same as before and increased only through the natural growth of population or decreased through abuse and violence perpetrated by Sunni-oriented governments.