• DOI:10.1515/ISLM.1965.41.1.71
• Corpus ID: 161679360

The Consolidation of Safawid power in Persia

@inproceedings{Savory1965TheCO,
  title={The Consolidation of Safawid power in Persia},
  author={Roger M. Savory},
  year={1965}
}

• R. Savory
• Published 1965
• History

By his victory over Alwand, the Äq Qoyünlü ruler, at Sharür in 906/1501, Ismaü had in fact broken the power of the Äq Qoyünlü, although resistance was far from being at an end. As an immediate result of his victory, Ismail was master only of Ädharbäyjän. The rest of Persia, and lräq-i Arab, were brought under Safawid control only after ten years of hard fighting (907—916/1501—1510). On 24 Shawwäl 907/2 May 1502 Isma'll left Tabriz for Arzinjän, where Alwand had collected a fresh army after his defeat theprevious year. Alwand fled, without ofFering battle, to Baghdäd; he then seized possession of Diyär Bakr from Qäsim Beg b. Jahängir, and continued to rule that province until his death in 910/1504). Ismail returnedto Tabriz for the winter of 907—8/1502—3, and opened negotiationswith Sultan Murad). According to the Tärikh-i Ilchl-yi Nizämshäh, Sultan Muräd's authority over Färs was slight, and most of the provincial governors ruled äs they pleased. "In short, the greatest imaginable turmoil and confusion reigned in lräq and Färs". The havoc and destruction wrought in the provinces of lräq and Färs were extremely severe, and the position öf the inhabitants of these regions became