# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/abbas-the-great
# Generated: 2026-08-31T17:36:43.738Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/abbas-the-great"
name: "Abbas the Great"
slug: "abbas-the-great"
description: "He inherited an empire tearing itself apart — warlords murdering his family, enemies carving off provinces — and died leaving Iran larger, richer, and centered on a capital so grand it still defines Persian architecture."
tagline: "Shah of Safavid Iran (1587–1629)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sultan_Abbas_I%2C_Chehel_Sotoun%2C_1647_painting.jpg"
gender: "male"
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birthDate: "1571-01-27"
deathDate: "1629-01-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             12.5330135491417
  historical:           24.18955733333334
  currentAttention:     3.130313944289462
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Abbas came to the throne at sixteen in 1588, installed by the same Qizilbash warlords who had killed his mother and brother while his father's weak rule collapsed around them. He moved fast: broke the tribal military's grip by building a new army of enslaved Circassians, Georgians, and Armenians who answered only to him, then turned that force outward. Over three decades he beat back the Ottomans and Uzbeks, reclaimed the South Caucasus, drove out the Portuguese, and pushed Iranian power deeper into the North Caucasus than it had ever reached. He moved the capital to Isfahan and rebuilt it as a wonder. By his final years the suspicion that kept him alive had curdled — he had his own sons killed or blinded after palace intrigue spooked him. He left behind borders, roads, a centralized state, and a template for how to turn a fracturing confederation into a monarchy that could last.