Political Zionism
Shah Abbas and Suleyman the Magnificent
Shah Abbas I ruled the Safavid Empire from 1587 to 1629. He was the first of the Safavid shahs to unify Persia into one, which had before been made up of a number of separate states that practiced different religions and spoke different languages. Abbas changed all this. He enforced his people to follow the teachings of Shi'ism and made the official language Farsi. When Abbas had come to power, the Ottomans and Uzbeks had been harassing the Safavid Empire and had captured the two cities of Tabriz and Herat. In 1590, Abbas signed a peace treaty with the Ottomans so he could concentrate more on the Uzbeks. Eight years later in 1598, Abbas recaptured the city of Herat from the Uzbeks and broke his treaty with the Ottomans to take back the city of Tabriz in 1605. In 1623 Abbas conquered Baghdad, and for safety reasons moved the capital of the Safavid Empire from Tabriz to Isfahan to distance it from the Ottoman Empire. Due to his......
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