The Ottomans, the Safavids, and the War for the Muslim World, 1501-1514

Tides of History

• Episode: The Ottomans, the Safavids, and the War for the Muslim World, 1501-1514
• Website: Tides of History
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• Duration: 00:58:21
• Published: 2020-02-13 11:00

The Muslim world was a vast and diverse place, home to a variety of traditions and schools of thought. The Safavids began as a brotherhood of Sufi mystics, but soon transformed themselves from a religious order to the seeds of a powerful extremist state in Iran under the leadership of a teenaged prodigy, Shah Ismail I. A clash with the Ottomans and Selim the Grim was inevitable.

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