The financial and social efforts of Safavid sheikhs in the management of Tariqa and establishment of Safavid (650-907)

The Safavid dynasty (1135-907) was the result of more than two centuries of patient preparation of Safavid sheikhs to reach power. Until before the period of Ṣāfī al-Din Ardabili, the Sufis turned to isolation and distance from the centers of political power. during the period of the Safavid sheikhs, a kind of metamorphosis occurred in the thought of the Safavid sheikhs, which can be referred to as their gradual entry into politics using financial and social Struggles. The present research tries to answer this basic question by using the descriptive-analytical approach and the library method, what were the most important financial and social efforts of the Safavid sheikhs in the long time and stable management of the Safavid Tariqa? The research hypothesizes that the Safavid sheikhs managed the Tariqa and established the government in a long process by relying on people and informal financial and social efforts. The results of the research show that the Safavid sheikhs, through creating links between rural and nomadic areas with the city institution and using the financial capacities of these three institutions, Optimized of incomes related to endowment  (waqf), khums (xums(, zakat and Anfal, people-oriented management of the Safavid Tariqa, Emphasis on clean bite, financial benefit from holy war with Shirvanshahs infidels, attention to the oppressed and poor layers and utilization of bureau and tax exemptions that granted by the concurrent rulers, in a long time and patient process, succeeded to establish the Safavid government.