The Founding of the Safavid Dynasty

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  • サファヴィー朝の成立
  • サファヴィーチョウ ノ セイリツ

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In Studying the armed forces of Isma'il I, the first shah of the Safavid Dynasty, the following three conclusions emerge : 1) The majority were Turkman nomads. 2) The armed forces retained the traditional nomadic army organization based on tribal units, the system of Left and Right Wings that was not changed throughout the dynasty, organization into units of 10, 100, 1000, and 10000 men, and the Palace Guards (qurchi). 3) The proto-type of these nomadic forces was composed, when Isma'il were at his summer camp at Arzinjan in 1500. Further, if we investigate important state officials during the reign of Isama'il, we find: 1) The people who had served from the time of Isma'il's father Haydar--the period when the Safavids were a religious group--all disappeared after the battle of Chaldiran in 1514. 2) By the end of the reign of Isma'il, the Turkman nomads had acquired great power, particularly those of the two tribes of Shamlu and Ustajlu who had joined with the Safavids after 1500. This shows how the government of the early Safavids was based on the Turkman nomads. We may say that the turning point from the "Safavid order" to the "Safavid dynasty" was the assembly of all the Turkman tribes at Arzinjan in 1500.

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  • 東洋史研究

    東洋史研究 37 (2), 186-218, 1978-09-30

    東洋史研究會

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