Shaykh Junayd

الشيخ جنيد الصفوي

1460 CE · 864 AH† †

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Draft card for Shaykh Junayd, the fifth master of the Safavid order who joined mission and sword until killed in Shirvan in 1460; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

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Roles
Scholar
Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Persia & Central Asia
Identifiers
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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Gunpowder Empires · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Baqi Yazdi · 'Abd al-Haqq al-Sunbati · Abd al-Rahman al-Tha'alibi · Taj al-Din 'Abd al-Wahhab ibn 'Arabshah · Abu Zayyan Muhammad V, Marinid Sultan

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Sources

  • Kitab al-Ibar of Ibn Khaldun
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islam.museum contributors. “Shaykh Junayd”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/shaykh-junayd-safavi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-20.

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