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Sheikh Junayd

Sheikh Junayd

Male - 1460    Has one ancestor and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name Junayd  
    Prefix Sheikh 
    Gender Male 
    Death 1460 
    Person ID I670485  Geneagraphie
    Links To This person is also Shaykh Junayd at Wikipedia 
    Last Modified 22 Nov 2009 

    Father Ibrahim   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Family ID F295136  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Khadija Begum 
    Children 
    +1. Haydar Safavi   d. 1488
    Family ID F295103  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 31 Jan 2018 

  • Notes 
    • He assumed the leadership of the Safaviya (sufi order) (after the death of his father) from 1447-1460. Under Sheikh Junayd, the Safaviya order was transformed from a Sufi order organized around a saint and ascetic into an active military movement with a policy of conquest and domination. He was the first Safavid spiritual leader to espouse specifically Shi'ite sentiments, and in particular those of the Ghulat . Therefore, it came as no surprise that Sheikh Junayd was viewed as a divine incarnation by his followers. During his time in Ardabil , he attracted so many disciples that in 1448, Jahan Shah (the Kara Koyunlu prince) drove him into exile to Anatolia and Syria. While there, he engaged in missionary activities and accumulated Turkmen followers. He then went to the court of Uzun Hassan at Diyarbakir , where he married Uzun Hassan's sister, Khadija Begum somewhere between 1456-1459. He was prevented from returning to Ardabil, so he lived at Shirvan where he died in a local skirmish near the river of Samur, where he was buried. This led to the beginning of animosity between the mainly Sunni Shirvanshah 's and the increasingly heterodox Shi'a Safavid's. He was succeeded by his son Sheikh Haydar as leader of the Safaviya.



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