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E. E. Oliver —The Safwi Dynasty of Persia. 
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1162 H. (1740) raised to the throne. He was young, handsome, ami¬ 
able, and popular, but his career was blasted by another chief, who also 
through the female line was a descendant of the Safwis, one Sayyid 
Muhammad, who seized Shah Ruth, and before the latter could assemble 
his troops, blinded him, and proclaimed himself king with the title of 
Sulaiman II. The same year saw this Sulaiman put to death by 
a general of Shah Ruth’s, and the blind prince brought from the prison 
to the throne again. For awhile the unfortunate Shah Ruth bore the 
title of prince, enjoyed the revenues of Mashhad, and the influence of 
Ahmad Shah Durani was sufficient to convert Khurasan into a separate 
province for him and to guarantee its integrity. But its chiefs re¬ 
tained almost complete independence, and only acknowledged Shah 
Rukh as their nominal suzerain. 
Still another puppet of the Safwi family was set up by the chief of 
the Bakhtiyari and Zand tribes, a nephew of Shah Husain, with the 
empty title of Isma’il III.; but he was purely nominal under the Wakil 
Karim Khan. 
The whole of the doings of these petty rulers belong to an entirely 
subsequent chapter of history. 
The inscriptions on the coins figured are in many cases somewhat 
elaborate. Shah Isma’il describes himself as “ Abii-l-Muzaffar, Baha¬ 
dur Khan, as-Safwi, as-Sultan, al-’Adil, al-Kamil, al-Hadi, al-Wali,” the 
father of the victorious , the just and perfect Sultan , the guide , the governor. 
Muhammad Calls himself “Badshah al-Husaini, as-Safwi.” Sulaiman says 
he is “ Banda Shah-i-Walayat,” the slave of ’ All , while Husain is 
“ Kalb-i-A'stan-i-’Ali,” a dog of the threshold of ’ Alt. The baby king is 
“ ’Abbas salis, sani Sahib Qiran, Zil-i-haqq ”, the third f Abbas, a 
second Muhammad * the shadoiv of God." 
Coins Nos. 31, 32 and 33 are struck in the namo of the Imam ’AH 
Musa Raza, the first apparently at (?) Azindran, or somo similarly 
named place in Khur&san, the others in Maslilmd ; all probably 
during the nominal reign of Shah Tahmasp II. Others, not des¬ 
cribed, are wanting dates or mints, somo having neither. One is in 
the namo of ’Ali oMaR* Another 1ms 
Others have the Shi’ah confession 
of faith on both sides. 
* [Rather: ‘a socond Timur,’ who first assumed that attribute. Bofore this 
’Ahh/is, the Kmporor Hh&h .Julian of Dohli hud similarly culled himself, on his coin*, 
‘ the hocoihI Ktlhib Qir/in.’ Kd.) 
