Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Ismail I" in English language version.
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Copy of a seated portrait of Shah Isma'il I from a lost original, ascribed to Bihzad, undated, Istanbul, Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi, H. 2169, fol. 64v
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)The Safavids were themselves Turkamans of remote Kurdish descent who claimed (and convinced all) that they were direct descendants of the Seventh Twelver Shia Imam and therefore of Imam Ali and the Prophet Mohammad.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link){{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link){{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link){{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)The image is of Shah Ismail I, and the note at the bottom edge ('Kalem-i şikeste-i fakir Behzad') identifies the drawing as the copy of an original by Bihzad
Şah Ismail (TSMK, nr. Hazine 2169, vr. 64b)
The Third Türkmen Wave Hits Iran. Vladimir Minorsky famously described the original Oghuz/Saljuq conquest of Iran as the first period of Türkmen dominion in Iran; the era of the Qara-qoyunlu and Aq-qoyunlu as the second; and the Safavid conquest as the third.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)At the time of Shah Esmāʿil I, a genealogy was fabricated according to which Ṣafi-al-Din descended from the seventh Imam, Musā al-Kāẓem (d. ca. 800).