The episode traces the Safavid dynasty from its origins as a family of Sufi sheikhs centered on the shrine of Safi al-Din Ardabili in northwest Iran, through the rise of Ismail, who took Tabriz in 1501 and proclaimed Twelver Shi'ism the state faith. It covers the defeat at Chaldiran in 1514, the reforms of Tahmasp and the golden age under Shah Abbas I in Isfahan, and the dynasty's decline, culminating in the 1722 Afghan siege of Isfahan and the abdication of Shah Sultan Husayn. The closing sections consider the lasting religious, artistic and territorial legacy of the Safavids in modern Iran.
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