# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shaykh-haydar
# Generated: 2026-08-31T23:27:10.901Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shaykh-haydar"
name: "Shaykh Haydar"
slug: "shaykh-haydar"
description: "Shaykh Haydar or Sheikh Haydar was the successor of his father as leader of the Safavid order from 1460 to 1488. Haydar maintained the policies and political ambitions initiated by his father. Under Sheikh Haydar, the order became crystallized as a political movement with an increasingly extremist heterodox Twelver Shi'i coloring and Haydar was viewed as a divine figure by his followers. Shaykh Haydar was responsible for instructing his followers to adopt the scarlet headgear of 12 gores commemorating The Twelve Imams, which led to them being designated by the Turkish term Qizilbash \"Red Head\"."
tagline: "The sixth leader of the Safavid order and father of Shah Ismail I (1460–1488)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sheikh_Haydar_Husayni%2C_and_Sultan_%CA%BFAli_Safavi_(Brother_of_Isma%CA%BFil_I)%2C_detail._Cem%CA%BF-i_T%C4%81r%C4%ABh%2C_Museum_of_Ethnography%2C_Ankara%2C_No._8457%2C_fol._17a.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1459"
deathDate: "1488"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.48
  momentum:             4.977146109000965
  historical:           15.52636533333333
  currentAttention:     20.67721343325007
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AD%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D9%81%D9%88%D9%8A"
    title: "حيدر الصفوي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%DB%8C%D8%AE_%D8%AD%DB%8C%D8%AF%D8%B1"
    title: "شیخ حیدر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9Eeyx_Heyd%C9%99r"
    title: "Şeyx Heydər"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xa%C3%AFkh_Haydar"
    title: "Xaïkh Haydar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheich_Haidar"
    title: "Scheich Haidar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A3%CE%B1%CE%90%CF%87_%CE%A7%CE%B1%CF%8A%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%AC%CF%81"
    title: "Σαΐχ Χαϊντάρ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaykh_Haydar"
    title: "Shaykh Haydar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaikh_Haydar_Safav%C3%AD"
    title: "Shaikh Haydar Safaví"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%DB%8C%D8%AE_%D8%AD%DB%8C%D8%AF%D8%B1_(%D8%B5%D9%81%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%87)"
    title: "شیخ حیدر (صفویه)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheikh_Heidar"
    title: "Cheikh Heidar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syeikh_Heydar"
    title: "Syeikh Heydar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaykh_Haydar"
    title: "Shaykh Haydar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A8%E1%83%94%E1%83%98%E1%83%AE_%E1%83%B0%E1%83%94%E1%83%98%E1%83%93%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98"
    title: "შეიხ ჰეიდარი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%85_%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%80"
    title: "Шейх Гейдар"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%85_%D2%B2%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%80"
    title: "Шайх Ҳайдар"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9Eeyh_Haydar"
    title: "Şeyh Haydar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D3%99%D0%B5%D1%85_%D0%A5%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%80"
    title: "Шәех Хейдар"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AD%DB%8C%D8%AF%D8%B1_%D8%B5%D9%81%D9%88%DB%8C"
    title: "حیدر صفوی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3119243"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump