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Mohammad Khodabanda

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Mohammad Khodabanda

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The fourth Safavid king (1578–1587)

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Person
Country
IR
Active from
1966-07-05

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Reign
11 February 1578 – October 1587
Predecessor
Ismail II
Successor
Abbas I
Born
1532, Tabriz , Safavid Iran
Died
1595 (aged 64), Qazvin , Safavid Iran
Burial
Imam Husayn Shrine , Karbala , Iraq
Consort
Khayr al-Nisa Begum
Issue
Hamza Mirza Abu Talib Mirza Abbas I Hasan Mirza Tahmasp Mirza Shah Begum

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1531-01-01
date of death
1595-07-00
name in native language
شاه محمد خدابنده
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Mohammad Khodabanda (also spelled Khodabandeh; Persian: محمد خدابنده, born 1532; died 1595 or 1596) was the fourth Safavid shah of Iran from 1578 until his overthrow in 1587 by his son Abbas I. Khodabanda had succeeded his brother, Ismail II. Khodabanda was the son of Shah Tahmasp I by a mother from the Turcoman Mawsillu clan of the Aq Qoyunlu confederation, Sultanum Begum Mawsillu, and a grandson of Ismail I, founder of the Safavid dynasty. After the death of his father in 1576, Khodabanda was passed over in favour of his younger brother Ismail II. Khodabanda had an eye affliction that rendered him nearly blind, and so in accordance with Persian royal culture he could not contend for the throne. However, following Ismail II's short and bloody reign Khodabanda emerged as the only heir and became Shah in 1578 with the backing of the Qizilbash tribes.

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