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AD 570Muhammad Shared thread 1516Battle of Marj Dabiq Shared thread AD 613Muhammad in Mecca Shared thread 1517Tuman bay II Shared thread AD 632Succession to Muhammad Shared thread 1520Suleiman the Magnificent Shared thread

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December 22, 1501

Ismail I

A fourteen-year-old claimed the title of shah in a city that was roughly two-thirds Sunni and made Shiism its official faith — with Qizilbash soldiers posted inside the Friday prayers.

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