page_title: Firuz-Shah Zarrin-Kolah
hierarchical_section_title: Firuz-Shah Zarrin-Kolah
caption_attribution_description: English: Taken from pg 349 of Z. V. Togan, "Sur l’Origine des Safavides," in Melanges Louis Massignon, Damascus , 1957. Samples of the two oldest and only pre-1501 extant manuscripts of Safvat al-Safa. Manuscript A Leiden ms. 2639 from 890/1485. Manuscript B Ayasofya ms. 3099 from 1491. Copyright does not apply as the text is taken from a manuscript from 520 years ago. The author of the manuscript, Ebn Bazzaz passed away at least 600 years ago.
context_page_description: Firuz Shah Zarrin Kolah was a Kurdish dignitary, and the seventh in the ancestral line of Shaykh Safi Ardabili, the eponym of the Safavid dynasty of Iran.
  In the pre-Safavid written work Safvat as-safa, the origin of the Safavids is traced to Firuz Shah Zarin Kolah who is called a Kurd, while in the post-Safavid manuscripts, this portion "Kurd from Sanjar" has been excised and Piruz Shah Zarin Kollah is made a descendant of the Shi'ite Imams The male lineage of the Safavid family given by the oldest manuscript of the Safwat as-Safa is:"[Sheykh] Safi al-Din Abul-Fatah Ishaaq the son of Al-Sheykh Amin al-din Jebrail the son of al-Saaleh Qutb al-Din Abu Bakr the son of Salaah al-Din Rashid the son of Muhammad al-Hafiz al-Kalaam Allah the son of ‘avaad the son of Birooz al-Kurdi al-Sanjāri.
  Firuz Shah likely migrated from Kurdistan to the region of Ardabil in the 11th century.
context_section_description: Firuz Shah Zarrin Kolah (Persian: فیروزشاه زرین کلاه, literal meaning in English: King Firuz of golden crown‎) was a Kurdish dignitary, and the seventh in the ancestral line of Shaykh Safi Ardabili, the eponym of the Safavid dynasty of Iran.
  In the pre-Safavid written work Safvat as-safa (oldest known extants manuscripts from 1485 and 1491), the origin of the Safavids is traced to Firuz Shah Zarin Kolah who is called a Kurd (from sanjār), while in the post-Safavid manuscripts, this portion "Kurd from Sanjar" has been excised and Piruz Shah Zarin Kollah is made a descendant of the Shi'ite Imams The male lineage of the Safavid family given by the oldest manuscript of the Safwat as-Safa is:"[Sheykh] Safi al-Din Abul-Fatah Ishaaq the son of Al-Sheykh Amin al-din Jebrail the son of al-Saaleh Qutb al-Din Abu Bakr the son of Salaah al-Din Rashid the son of Muhammad al-Hafiz al-Kalaam Allah the son of ‘avaad the son of Birooz (Firuz) al-Kurdi al-Sanjāri.
   Firuz Shah likely migrated from Kurdistan to the region of Ardabil in the 11th century.
caption: Wa chon Nisbat Birooz bâ Kurd raft translates to "Since the origin of Birooz was Kurdish"
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