The oldest extant book on the genealogy of the Safavid family is ''

Safvat as-safa The ''Safvat as-safa'' ( fa, صفوة الصفا), also spelled ''Safvat al-safa'' or ''Safwat al-safa'', is a hagiography of the Sufi shaykh Safi-ad-din Ardabili (1252–1334), founder of the Safaviya Sufi order. Author The ''Safvat as-safa' ...

'' and was written by Ibn Bazzaz in 1350, a disciple of Sheikh Sadr-al-Din Safavi, the son of Sheikh Safi ad-din Ardabili. According to Ibn Bazzaz, the Sheikh was a descendant of a

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man named Firooz Shah Zarrin Kolah who was from

Sanjar Senjer ( fa, ; full name: ''Muizz ad-Dunya wa ad-Din Adud ad-Dawlah Abul-Harith Ahmad Sanjar ibn Malik-Shah'') (''b''. 1085 – ''d''. 8 May 1157) was the Seljuq ruler of Khorasan from 1097 until in 1118,Diyarbakir. The male lineage of the Safavid family given by the oldest manuscript of the ''Safvat as-Safa'' is: "Sheykh Safi al-Din Abul-Fatah Ishaaq the son of Al-Sheykh Amin al-din Jebrail the son of al-Saaleh Qutb al-Din Abu Bakr the son of Salaah al-Din Rashid the son of Muhammad al-Hafiz al-Kalaam Allah the son of ‘Avaad the son of Birooz al-Kurdi al-Sanjari." Later Safavid Kings themselves claimed to be

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s,In the Silsilat-ol-nasab-i Safawiya (composed during the reign of Shah Suleiman)(1667–1694), written by Shah Hussab ibn Abdal Zahidi, the ancestry of the Safavid is traced back to the first Shi'i Imam as follows: *Shaykh Safi al-din Abul Fatah Eshaq ibn (son of) *Shaykh Amin al-Din Jabrail ibn *Qutb al-din ibn *Salih ibn *Muhammad al-Hafez ibn *Awad ibn *Firuz Shah Zarin Kulah ibn *Majd ibn *Sharafshah ibn *Muhammad ibn *Hasan ibn *Seyyed Muhammad ibn *Ibrahim ibn *Seyyed Ja'afar ibn *Seyyed Muhammad ibn *Seyyed Isma'il ibn *Seyyed Muhammad ibn *Seyyed Ahmad 'Arabi ibn *Seyyed Qasim ibn *Seyyed Abul Qasim Hamzah ibn *Musa al-Kazim ibn *Ja'far As-Sadiq ibn *Muhammad al-Baqir ibn *Imam Zayn ul-'Abedin ibn *Hussein ibn *Ali ibn *Abi Taleb Alayha as-Salam. There are differences between this and the oldest manuscript of Safwat as-Safa. Seyyeds have been added from Piruz Shah Zarin Kulah up to the first Shi'i Imam and the nisba "Al-Kurdi" has been excised. The title/name "Abu Bakr" (also the name of the first Caliph and highly regarded by Sunnis) is deleted from Qutb ad-Din's name. ُSource: Husayn ibn Abdāl Zāhidī, 17th cent. Silsilat al-nasab-i Safavīyah, nasabnāmah-'i pādishāhān bā uzmat-i Safavī, ta'līf-i Shaykh Husayn pisar-i Shaykh Abdāl Pīrzādah Zāhidī dar 'ahd-i Shāh-i Sulaymnān-i Safavī. Berlīn, Chāpkhānah-'i Īrānshahr, 1924 (1303). 116 pages. Original Persian language source of the lineage: شیخ صفی الدین ابو الفتح اسحق ابن شیخ امین الدین جبرائیل بن قطب الدین ابن صالح ابن محمد الحافظ ابن عوض ابن فیروزشاه زرین کلاه ابن محمد ابن شرفشاه ابن محمد ابن حسن ابن سید محمد ابن ابراهیم ابن سید جعفر بن سید محمد ابن سید اسمعیل بن سید محمد بن سید احمد اعرابی بن سید قاسم بن سید ابو القاسم حمزه بن موسی الکاظم ابن جعفر الصادق ابن محمد الباقر ابن امام زین العابدین بن حسین ابن علی ابن ابی طالب علیه السلام family descendants of the Islamic prophet

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. The great-grandson of Sheyk Safi, Sheik Joneyd, got married with Khadijeh Khanoum sister of

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and daughter of Ali Beg by his wife Theodora of Trebizond, daughter of

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. Heydar, son of Joneyd, married Katherina who was a daughter of Uzun Hassan by his wife

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, daughter of a Bagrationi

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princess and

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