The rise and fall of Gizilbash in Safavid era

Gizilbash rose as tribes at the beginning of Safavid rising in Azerbaijan then immediately dispersed in almost every region in Iran. They attained powerful social and economical positions, in fact they were Military bases of safavid government, but they also caused many problems for government. Gizilbash were mentally Shiite sofi became orthodoxy Shiite missionaries of twelvefolds, so Safavid kings made more economical benefits for them thus Gizilbash became one of the powerful social classes of Safavid era. Shah Abbas I, one of the greatest king of safavid dynasty hit the knockdown blow to their chiefs because of mistrust to this class; this policy was one of the reasons of safavid government decline and followed by the next Safavid kings. Although the mentional reason is represented one of the reasons of Safavids decline so far in many books and articles but this topic hasn’t dealt with seperatly yet. In this article we try to deal with peak and decline of Gizilbash class economically with existing references.