Shaykh Junayd
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Shaykh Junayd was the hereditary leader of the Safavid order, a Sufi order based in Ardabil in northwestern Iran. He was the son of Shaykh Ibrahim and the grandson of Khvajeh Ali Safavi. He was the fa
Mausoleum of Shaykh Junayd.
Casket of Shaykh Junayd
Shaykh Haydar
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Shaykh Haydar or Sheikh Haydar was the successor of his father as leader of the Safavid order from 1460 to 1488. Haydar maintained the policies and political ambitions initiated by his father. Under S
Shaykh Junayd
…increasingly heterodox Shi’i Safaviyya. Mausoleum of Shaykh Juneyd is located in the village of Khazra in Azerbaijan. Junayd was succeeded by his son Shaykh Haydar, who married his cousin Halima Alamshah Khatun, daughter of Uzun Hassan and Theodora Despina Khatun. They had three sons and three daughters. One of…
Shaykh Haydar (left), and his son Sultan ʿAli Safavi (brother of Ismaʿil I, right). Cemʿ-i Tārīh, Museum of Ethnography, Ankara, No. 8457, fol. 17a.
Tomb of Shaykh Haydar in Meshginshahr