Safi-ad-Din Ardabili

Safi-ad-din Ardabili
Safi-ad-din Ardabili
	Safi ad-din Ardabili surrounded by his disciples, as illustrated in a 16th-century Safavid manuscript of the Safvat as-safa
Title	Murshid
Personal
Born	1252/3; Ardabil, Mongol Empire
Died	September 12, 1334 (aged 81–82); Ardabil, Ilkhanate
Religion	Sunni Islam
Spouse	Bibi Fatima
Parents	Amin al-Din Jibrail (father); Dawlati (mother);
Jurisprudence	Shafi'i
Senior posting
Predecessor	Zahed Gilani
Successor	Sadr al-Din Musa (son)

Safi-ad-Din Ardabili (Persian: صفی‌الدین اسحاق اردبیلی Ṣāfī ad-Dīn Isḥāq Ardabīlī; 1252/3 – 1334) was a poet, mystic, teacher and Sufi master. He was the son-in-law and spiritual heir of the Sufi master Zahed Gilani, whose order—the Zahediyeh—he reformed and renamed the Safaviyya, which he led from 1301 to 1334.

Safi was the eponymous ancestor of the Safavid dynasty, which ruled Iran from 1501 to 1736.

^ Shaykh Safi al-Din Ardabili, Oxford Reference

[oxford-1] Shaykh Safi al-Din Ardabili, Oxford Reference

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