Depth
At a glance
- Roles
- sufi
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
- Draft Completeness 2/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Summary
The call
Al-Salabi records the great company of Sufi and dervish disciples who spread his call through Iran, Ottoman provinces, Iraq and Syria, and that descent from Ali ibn Abi Talib was propagated for his line — giving them, in their followers' claim, ground to demand rule 2.
The dissimulation claim
The book alleges Safi al-Din practised taqiyya, outwardly a Shafi'i Sunni until the way opened for the Shi'i call — the author's framing of Safavid origins within his account of why the Ottomans turned east 2.
Sources
- al-Dawla al-Uthmaniyya — Ali Muhammad al-Salabi (2001) , p. 177
- al-Dawla al-Uthmaniyya — Ali Muhammad al-Salabi (2001) , p. 177-178
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Shaykh Safi al-Din al-Ardabili”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/safi-al-din-ardabili/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.