# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tahmasp-i
# Generated: 2026-08-31T17:37:16.484Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tahmasp-i"
name: "Tahmasp I"
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description: "Tahmasp I held the Safavid throne for fifty-two years through civil war, Ottoman invasion, and Uzbek raids — the longest reign of any shah in the dynasty. He crushed internal rivals, beat back Suleiman the Magnificent's attempts to replace him, and reshaped Iran's religious identity by ending messianic worship of his father and forging a zealous Shi'a orthod"
tagline: "Safavid Shah of Iran from 1524 to 1576"
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birthDate: "1514-02-22"
deathDate: "1576-05-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           23.46143866666667
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  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Tahmasp took the throne at ten after his father Ismail I died in 1524, and spent his first eight years watching Qizilbash warlords tear the empire apart in civil war. At fourteen he won the Battle of Jam against Uzbek raiders using artillery; at eighteen he finally imposed absolute rule. For decades he fought a three-phase war with Suleiman the Magnificent, who tried repeatedly to install puppet shahs — it ended in 1555 with the Peace of Amasya, costing Iran Iraq and much of Kurdistan. He built a royal house for painters and poets, then later turned on the poets and exiled many to Mughal India. His religious fervor was absolute: he demanded the fugitive emperor Humayun convert to Shi'ism before offering help, elevated the clergy into legal and administrative power, and dismantled the cult around his father to install orthodox Shia kingship. To break Qizilbash dominance he imported Islamized Georgians and Armenians as a counterweight — a policy his successors would continue. His death in 1576 triggered a succession war that killed most of the royal family.