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Shaykh Haydar
Shaykh Haydar was head of the Safavid Sufi order of Ardabil from 1460 to 1488 and father of Shah Ismail I. Married to a daughter of the Aq Qoyunlu ruler Uzun Hasan, he turned the order's followers into a fighting force and is credited with the red headgear that gave them the name Qizilbash. He was killed in 1488 fighting the Shirvanshah Farrukh Yasar and his Aq Qoyunlu allies.
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