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Firuzshah Zarrin-Kolah (Kurdish:پیرۆز شای کڵاو زێڕین) was aKurdish dignitary[1][2] and seventh in theancestral lineage of Safi-ad-Din Ardabili, theeponym of theSafavid dynasty rulingSafavid Iran.
In the pre-Safavid written workSafvat as-safa, whose oldest extant manuscripts date to 1485 and 1491, the origin of theSafavid dynasty is traced to Firuzshah Zarin Kollah, who is called a Kurd fromSanjār, while in the post-Safavid manuscripts, this portion "Kurd from Sanjār" has been excised. Firuzshah Zarin Kollah is made a descendant of theTwelve Imams.[3] The male lineage of the Safavid family given by the oldest manuscript of the Safwat al-Safa is:"[Sheykh] Safi al-Din Abul-Fatah Ishaaq the son of Al-Shaykh Amin al-Din Jebrail the son of al-Salah Qutb al-Din Abu Bakr the son of Salâh al-Din Rashid the son of Muhammad al-Hafiz al-Kalâm Allah, the son of ‘Avâd the son of Birûz (Pirûz) al-Kurdi al-Sanjāri.
Firuz Shah likely migrated fromKurdistan to the region ofArdabil in the 11th century.[1]
After the establishment of Safavid rule, official genealogies traced the lineage of Firuz Shah Zarrin-Kolah to the seventh of the Twelver Imams,Musa al-Kazim. In theSilsilat-an-Nasab-i Safaviya, composed during the reign ofSuleiman I (1667–1694) and written by Shah Hussab ibn Abdal Zahidi, the ancestry of the Safavid is traced back toAli.[4] The origins of the family of Safi-al-Din go back not to Hijaz but to Kurdistan, from where, seven generations before him, Firuz Shah Zarrin-kulah had migrated toAzerbaijan.[5]
But the origins of the family of Shaykh Safi al-Din go back not to Hijaz but toKurdistan, from where, seven generations before him, Firuz Shah Zarin-kulah had migrated to Azerbaijan.