Ali Mirza Safavi

leader of the Safaviyya

1475 CE to 1494 CE

Padeshah Ali Mirza Safavi succeeds his father Haydar Safavi as leader of the Safaviyya, a Twelver Shi'i militant religious order, in 1488.

He is killed in 1494 by order of the Ak Koyunlu leader, Roustam, who views his former ally as a growing threat.

Ali Mirza's father and grandfather had married into the Ak Koyunlu dynasty: his mother is Alam-Shah Begum, daughter of the Ak Koyunlu leader Uzun Hasan.

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