"When the Safavid dynasty, founded in 1501, built a state that championed Iranian identity and Twelver Shi'ism, it prompted the more established Ottoman empire to align itself definitively with Sunni ...
Patterns--Iran in the Late Safavid Period -- Politics at the Safavid Court, I: shahs and grand viziers, 1629-1666 -- Safavid politics II: shahs, grand viziers, and eunuchs, 1666-1699 -- Monetary ...