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Sultan Selim Al-Awwal “The Destroyer of the Safavid State” A brief biography of Sultan Selim Al-Awwal from the book ‘Mi’atu min ‘uzamā’i ummati al-Islām ghayyarū majra at-tārīkh’ by At-Turbani. (Slightly adapted) “Wa Ba’ad (And after)… Indeed, our scholars and men of law have sentenced you, Ismā‘īl As-Safawi[1], to execution, as an apostate from Islam. TheyContinue reading “Sultan Selim Al-Awwal “The Destroyer of the Safavid State””