Safaviadj.n.

1835 Penny Cycl. IV. 65/2 Bayazid was induced to yield peace..under Shah Ismail, the founder of the Safawi (commonly called the Sofi) dynasty.

1896 Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 65 150 He was the last of the Ṣafawī race who distinguished himself in India.

1906 Geogr. Jrnl. Dec. 561 Two red-brick obelisks, said..to date from Safavi times.

1948 Middle East Jrnl. 2 48 The Safavi rulers were hospitable to European contacts to a degree not characteristic of the immediately subsequent period.

1997 Internat. Jrnl. Middle East Stud. 29 667 Isfahan's Armenians..seem to have ignored Safavi art in their own Armenian books.

1854 W. H. Morley Descr. Catal. Hist. Manuscripts in Arabic & Persian Lang. cxlv. 137 In addition to the history of the Safawís..the author has affixed separate accounts of the English in India.

1886 Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc. 18 188 The history of three hundred and seventy years, from the origin of the Safavís to a.h. 1274 ( a.d. 1858).

1921 History Jan. 229 Turkey seems purely Oriental..finding its parallels, not in any European monarchy, but in the transitory splendours of the Safawis in Persia and the Moghuls in Hindustan.

1974 M. G. S. Hodgson Venture of Islam III. 27 The Ṣafavîs themselves seemed to have preferred a more peaceful contest..to choose which son would succeed after the monarch's death.

2006 N. Capponi Victory of West i. 24 A clash between the Ottomans and the Safavis was pretty much inevitable.