Sheikh Junayd (died 1460) (Persian: شیخ جنیدShaikh Junaid) was the son of Shaykh Ibrahim, father of Shaykh Haydar and grandfather of the founder of Safavid dynasty, Shah Ismail I. After the death of his father, he assumed the leadership of the Safaviyya from 1447–1460.
Sheikh Junayd (died 1460) (Persian: شیخ جنید Shaikh Junaid) was the son of Shaykh Ibrahim, father of Shaykh Haydar and grandfather of the founder of Safavid...
Junayd of Shiraz (fl. 1389), Persian Sufi Junayd of Aydın (died 1425), nobleman and warrior in Anatolia ShaykhJunayd (died 1460), the Sheikh of Safaviya Mohammed...
Shaykh Haydar or Sheikh Haydar (Persian: شیخ حیدر Shaikh Ḥaidar; 1459–9 July 1488) was the successor of his father (ShaykhJunayd) as leader of the Safavid...
off his sister to ShaykhJunayd, the then leader of the Safavid order, and one of his daughters to Junayd's son and successor, Shaykh Haydar. Uzun Hasan...
order, the Zahediyeh. Two of Safi-ad-Din's descendants, ShaykhJunayd (d. 1460) and his son, Shaykh Haydar (d. 1488), made the order more militant and unsuccessfully...
was a son of ShaykhJunayd, leader of the Safavid order (1447–1460), born by a Circassian concubine. He was an older (half)-brother of Shaykh Haydar, the...
I's men killed the Safavid leader ShaykhJunayd during a raid by the latter on Shirvan in 1460. Junayd's son, Shaykh Haydar, died a similar death; on 9...
Khwādja Ali († 1429) and in turn to his son Ibrāhīm († 1429–47). When ShaykhJunayd, the son of Ibrāhim, assumed the leadership of the Safaviyya in 1447...
Hasan and Jahangir Mirza, as well as Khadija Begum, who later married ShaykhJunayd of the Safavid dynasty. In 1435, after the death of his father in the...
al-Sulayhi -the founder and sultan of the Sulayhid dynasty in Yemen ShaykhJunayd Öljaitü-the eighth Ilkhanid dynasty ruler from 1304 to 1316 in Tabriz...
though few of his Persian writings survive. Ismail I was born to Martha and Shaykh Haydar on July 17, 1487, in Ardabil. His father, Haydar, was the sheikh...
the Safawiyyah changed in character and became militant under ShaykhJunayd and Shaykh Haydar, launching jihads against the Christians of Georgia. The...
the office of grand mufti of Istanbul evolved into that of Şeyhülislam (shaykh, or "leader of Islam"), which had ultimate jurisdiction over all the courts...
in his reign, John was faced with an attack by the ruler of Ardabil, ShaykhJunayd, who marched upon Trebziond: proposed dates range from the 1430s (E...
of the lower ranking members of the abdal. At various times in history, shaykhs have been known to publicly claim to be the Qutb, despite the tradition...
Shah-Pasha Khatun when her father, ShaykhJunayd (d. 1460), was alive. Shah-Pasha Khatun was the only surviving sister of Shaykh Haydar (1459–1488). This marriage...
Qalandariyya stream of Sufism, figures like Ahmad Yasawi, Yunus Emre, Shah Ismail, Shaykh Haydar, Nesimi, Pir Sultan Abdal, Gül Baba, Sari Saltik and to varying degrees...
Tbilisi before returning to Tabriz. He was accompanied by Shaykh Ibrahim, father of future ShaykhJunayd. He also mounted a second military expedition against...
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