The Ottomans, based in present-day Turkey, are…

1396 CE to 1539 CE

The Ottomans, based in present-day Turkey, are Sunnis: as rivals for the religious allegiance of Muslims in eastern Anatolia and Iraq, they press territorial claims in both these areas and in the Caucasus.

The Safavi Empire receives a blow that is to prove fatal in 1524, when the Ottoman sultan Selim I defeats Safavi forces at Chaldiran and occupies the Safavi capital, Tabriz.

He is forced to withdraw because of the harsh winter and the Safavis' scorched-earth policy.

Safavi rulers continue to assert claims to spiritual leadership, but the defeat shatters belief in the shah as a semi-divine figure and weakens his hold on the Qizilbash chiefs.

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Tabriz Azarbayjan-e Sharqi Iran View →

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Ismail I View → Selim I View →

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Iranian peoples View → Arab people View → Transoxiana View → Khorasan, Greater View → Oghuz Turks View → Muslims, Sunni View → Muslims, Shi'a View → Sufism View → Turkmen, Iraqi View → Turkmen people View → Mongols View → Uzbeks View → Kara Koyunlu (Black Sheep Turks), (Turkmen) Emirate of the View → Ag Qoyunlu (White Sheep Turks), (Turkmen) Emirate of the View → Ottoman Empire View → Ag Qoyunlu (White Sheep Turks), (Turkmen) Emirate of the View → Qizilbash or Kizilbash, (Ottoman Turkish for "Crimson/Red Heads") View → Ag Qoyunlu (White Sheep Turks), (Turkmen) Emirate of the View → Ag Qoyunlu (White Sheep Turks), (Turkmen) Emirate of the View → Persia, Safavid Kingdom of View →

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Safavid conversion of Iran to Shia Islam View →

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