Author Question: Safavid power was spread through Persia by a. resurgent Sunni military leaders. b. Ismail's ... (Read 27 times)

geoffrey · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

Safavid power was spread through Persia by

a. resurgent Sunni military leaders.
b. Ismail's militant use of Shi'ite Islam to unify the region.
c. Safi's enforcement of sufi mysticism throughout the region.
d. Shah Abbas' successful military campaigns against the Byzantines.
e. Sunni pashas.

Question 2

The founder of the Safavid Dynasty could trace his ancestry back to all except

a. a Shi'ite sheikh.
b. a descendant of Ali, the fourth imam of Islam.
c. a man called Safi al-Din, who led a group of Turkish tribesmen, who lived in Azerbaijan.
d. Saladin.
e. none of the above