“Anche se, come alcuni sostengono oggi senza fornire prove convincenti, Ismail è nato curdo, era sufficientemente turchizzato per apparire come turco. Molti tratti del suo carattere e molte delle sue azioni erano caratteristici di coloro che provenivano dalle steppe dell’Asia centrale.”
Fonte: Jean-Paul Roux, Storia dell’Iran e degli iraniani
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di Objective-Chip3445
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Well, of course, although his family tree is somewhat diverse (Greek, Georgian, Kurdish, Turkic, etc.), his primary and dominant identity was Turkic. Ismail I literally won over his followers by blending Turkic customs with Shiite Islam.
I will never understand why some Kurds want to claim him as one of their own when Ismail only identified with his Turkic origins and, what’s more, his son (and many members of the Safavid elite) used the word “Kurd” as an insult.
He was a shabak from Iraq but y’all not ready for that discussion
Who cares? We have bigger problems today than to argue about empires long gone and who ruled them.