Sheykhavand family

The Sheykhavand family was a branch of the Safavid dynasty, descended from Sheykh Ebrahim, the father of Shaykh Junayd.[1] Like the Shahsevan, they were created by Shah Abbas I (r. 1587–1629) as a "tribe", similar to the Cossacks in Russia.[2] They had received Qizilbash status.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Karakaya-Stump 2021, p. 49.
  2. ↑ Matthee 2015, p. 462.
  3. ↑ Newman 2008, p. 54.

Sources

  • Karakaya-Stump, Ayfer (2021). "Who really were the Kizilbash? a rethinking of the Kizilbash movement in light of new sources and research". In Matthee, Rudi (ed.). The Safavid World. Routledge. pp. 37–55. ISBN 978-1138944060.
  • Matthee, Rudi (2015). "Relations between the Center and the Periphery in Safavid Iran: The Western Borderlands v. the Eastern Frontier Zone". The Historian. 77 (3): 431–463. doi:10.1111/hisn.12068. S2CID 143393018.
  • Newman, Andrew J. (2008). Safavid Iran: Rebirth of a Persian Empire. I.B.Tauris. ISBN 978-0857716613.
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