Sadr al-Din Musa explained

Background:Kurdish
Sadr Al-Din Musa
Murshid
Predecessor:Safi-ad-din Ardabili
Successor:Khvajeh Ali Safavi
Birth Date:1305
Birth Place:Ardabil, modern day Iran
Death Date:1391
Religion:Islam, Sunni (Shafi'i)

Sadr al-Din Musa (1305-1391) (صدرالدین موسی) was the son and successor of Safi-ad-din Ardabili. His mother was Bibi Fatima, daughter of Zahed Gilani. Sadr al-Din directed the Safaviyya for 59 years. During this time, the activities of the Safaviyya were viewed with favour by Timur, who provided an endowment for the shrine of Safi-ad-din Ardabili in Ardabil, and allowed Sadr al-Din to collect taxes. Timur also offered Sadr al-Din to request any favour from himself, and Sheikh Sadr al-Din asked for the release of Turkish prisoners captured by Timur from Diyarbakır. Timur accepted this request, and the freed prisoners became Sadr al-Din's loyal disciples. The descendants of these freed prisoners, emigrating by the thousands into Gilan Province, would later aid his family to found a dynasty.[1] [2]

He was buried at Ardabil near his father.[3] His son Khwādja Ali († 1429) succeeded him as leader of the Safaviyya.

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Notes

  1. https://books.google.com/books?id=AzqbYf9Q_2UC&dq=safavi+haydar&pg=PA84 The history of Iran, By Elton L. Daniel, pg.83
  2. https://books.google.com/books?id=wiAZyeSKKWwC&dq=safavi+junayd&pg=PA240 A History of Persia, By Percy Molesworth Sykes, pg.240
  3. https://books.google.com/books?id=Y7JInpQL0x8C&dq=Safawi&pg=PA416 Biographical encyclopaedia of Sufis, By N. Hanif, pg.415-417