Safavid

or Sa·fa·wid

[ sah-fah-weed ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Origin of Safavid¹

1910–15; < Arabic ṣafawī, adj. derivative of Ṣafī al-Dīn Isḥāq, ancestor of royal house + -id ¹

Zarqawi never made any secret that his real target was the Safavid heartland itself, Iran.

It indicates the highest technique acquired in the early part of the Safavid dynasty.

The oldest that remain belong to the early part of the Safavid rule.

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