abstract:Ismail I (July 17, 1487 – May 23, 1524), known in Persian as Shāh Ismāʿil (; full name: Abū l-Muzaffar bin Haydar as-Safavī), was a Shah of Iran (1501) Ismāʿīl I, in Encyclopædia Britannica, online ed., 2011Woodbridge Bingham, Hilary Conroy, Frank William Iklé, A History of Asia: Formations of Civilizations, From Antiquity to 1600,