List of Safavid monarchs

Following table consists name of Safavid dynasty monarchs in Iran.

No. Name Image Birth/death Reign span Reason of reign Note Ref.
1 Ismail I 1487-1524 1502-1524 Son of Sheikh Heydar [1][2]
2 Tahmasp I 1514-1576 1525-1576 Son of Ismail I and heir of crown [3][4][5]
3 Ismail II 1537-1577 1576-1577 Son of Tahmasp I and heir of crown [6][7][8][9]
4 Mohammad Khodabanda 1532-1596 1577-1587 Son of Tahmasp I and heir of crown Deposed [10][11]
5 Abbas I of Persia 1571-1629 1587-1629 Son of Mohammad Khodabanda and heir of crown [12][13][14]
6 Safi of Persia 1611-1642 1629-1642 Grandson of Abbas I of Persia His name was Sam Mirza before Coronation. [3]
7 Abbas II of Persia 1632-1666 1642-1666 Son of Safi of Persia and heir of crown [15]
8 Suleiman I of Persia 1645-1694 1666-1694 Son of Abbas II of Persia and heir of crown His name was Safi Mirza. At first he crowned by the name of king Safi and at second year of his reign he crowned by the name of Suleiman. [16]
9 Sultan Husayn 1668-1726 1694-1722 Son of Suleiman I of Persia and heir of crown ِDeposed and killed by Mahmud Hotak [3]

References
  1. Ismāʿīl I, in Encyclopædia Britannica, online ed., 2011
  2. Woodbridge Bingham, Hilary Conroy, Frank William Iklé, A History of Asia: Formations of Civilizations, From Antiquity to 1600, and Bacon, 1974, p. 116.
  3. The Royal Ark
  4. "ṬAHMĀSP I". Retrieved 12 May 2015.
  5. Shaw, Stanford J. (1976), History of the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey, Volume 1, p. 109. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-29163-1
  6. Ismail II , Dr Manouchehr Parsadoost, ISBN 9643251063, 2003
  7. Andrew J. Newman, Safavid Iran (IB Tauris, 2004) p. 42
  8. Oberling, Pierre, Georgians and Circassians in Iran, The Hague, 1963; pp.127-143
  9. Savory pp. 69–70
  10. Matthee, Rudi (28 July 2008), Safavid Dynasty, retrieved 9 August 2012
  11. Andrew J. Newman, Safavid Iran, I.B.Tauris, 2004, p.42
  12. Thorne 1984, p. 1
  13. Savory 1980, p. 71
  14. Newman 2006, p. 42
  15. Babaie et al. 2004, p. 44
  16. Buyers, Christopher. "PERSIA - The Safavid Dynasty (Genealogy)". Retrieved 1 December 2015.
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