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The Early Safavids
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The nascent Safavid uprising by the militant shaykhs Junayd and Haydar (grandfather and father of Shah Isma‘il) tried to create cohesion among their motley army of Turkic recruits from Anatolia and others through uniformization, the rapid distribution of booty, and even the recruitment of slave soldiers. The goals of this chapter are the most complicated to accomplish, as the period was not captured by a single chronicler. In other words, we must rely on traces scattered across various texts to reach this obscure but much misunderstood period of history. In many ways the early Safavids modelled themselves after the Ottomans and tried to appeal to potentially disaffected soldiers there as the best source of recruits, not simply as Sufis or Turks, but as ghazis.
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The nascent Safavid uprising by the militant shaykhs Junayd and Haydar (grandfather and father of Shah Isma‘il) tried to create cohesion among their motley army of Turkic recruits from Anatolia and others through uniformization, the rapid distribution of booty, and even the recruitment of slave soldiers.
The goals of this chapter are the most complicated to accomplish, as the period was not captured by a single chronicler.
In other words, we must rely on traces scattered across various texts to reach this obscure but much misunderstood period of history.
In many ways the early Safavids modelled themselves after the Ottomans and tried to appeal to potentially disaffected soldiers there as the best source of recruits, not simply as Sufis or Turks, but as ghazis.
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