MMW 13 Lecture Notes - Muhammad Al-Mahdi, Sufism, Qizilbash

• School: UCSD
• Department: Making of the Modern World
• Course: MMW 13
• Professor: Edmond Chang

Document Summary

-a) isma"il and the messianic ideology of the qizilbash. Isma"il led an army of turkish warriors, capture tabriz--northwestern corner of. ---ii) how did a 14 year-old achieve this? persian appeared purposely for the founding of the empire. -----(1) exploit every traditional source of messianic ideology in islam. -------(a) 13th century sufi leader safi al-din good backgroud, isma"il as the decedent of safi al-din. -------(b) the hidden twelfth imam of shi"a islam put religious symbol on this boy associate him with the shia islam--missing in mom--reappear the hidden. -----(1) fearless fanaticism and blood oath to isma"il. All of them aim to : take adventages of the religious authority---gain the movement to the political power soldiers believed that isma"il would protect them from being hurt promote the rack and the existence of ottoman. -----(1) safavids intent on spreading their sufi/shi"ite ideology. Safavid followed pd that mixed of sufian and shia whereas ottoman seen themselves as sufi islam.