Firuz-Shah Zarrin-Kolah

Firuz-Shah Zarrin-Kolah

Firuz Shah Zarrin Kolah (Persian: فیروزشاه زرین کلاه‎) was a Kurdish dignitary, and the seventh in the ancestral line of Shaykh Safi Ardabili, the eponym of the Safavid dynasty of Iran.

In the pre-Safavid written work Safvat as-safa (oldest known extants manuscripts from 1485 and 1491), the origin of the Safavids is traced to Firuz Shah Zarin Kolah who is called a Kurd (from sanjār), while in the post-Safavid manuscripts, this portion "Kurd from Sanjan" has been excised and Piruz Shah Zarin Kollah is made a descendant of the Shi'ite Imams The male lineage of the Safavid family given by the oldest manuscript of the Safwat as-Safa is:" Safi al-Din Abul-Fatah Ishaaq the son of Al-Sheykh Amin al-din Jebrail the son of al-Saaleh Qutb al-Din Abu Bakr the son of Salaah al-Din Rashid the son of Muhammad al-Hafiz al-Kalaam Allah the son of ‘avaad the son of Birooz(Firuz) al-Kurdi al-Sanjāri.

. Firuz Shah likely migrated from Kurdistan to the region of Ardabil in the 11th century.