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The 15 pages that link to Ottoman–Safavid relations, each with the reason it gives.

• Ottoman EmpireCompared with: Their competition shaped eastern borders and sharpened the political divide between Sunni and Shi'a powers.

• Safavid dynastyRelated: Their wars helped define political boundaries and sharpen Sunni–Shia divisions.

• Battle of ChaldiranRelated: Their competition over eastern Anatolia and regional authority set the battle’s context.

• Shah Abbas IRelated: The rivalry shaped Abbas's western campaigns and diplomatic calculations.

• Shah Ismail IRelated: Ismail’s rivalry with the Sunni Ottoman Empire shaped his western campaigns and religious identity.

• Selim INarrower topic: The rivalry outlasted Selim and complicates accounts that reduce his campaigns to religious motives.

• Gunpowder empiresRelated: Their competition shaped the western Asian setting in which both states consolidated power.

• QizilbashRelated: Qizilbash armies fought in the Safavid state’s recurring wars with the Ottomans.

• Sunni–Shia relationsBroader topic: Their wars and borders gave sectarian difference a durable geopolitical form.

• Murad IVNarrower topic: The 1639 settlement under Murad set terms for a comparatively stable border.

• Aq QoyunluRelated: The Aq Qoyunlu’s former lands became a contested frontier between these successor powers.

• AlevismRelated: The rivalry contributed to suspicion and persecution of some Anatolian groups linked to Safavid sympathies.

• Evliya ÇelebiRelated: Travel across contested borderlands gives context to his reports on neighboring powers.

• Safavid conversion of Iran to Shia IslamRelated: Their Sunni–Shia divide intensified conflicts already driven by imperial competition.

• Classical Age of the Ottoman EmpireRelated: Their rivalry defined the empire’s eastern frontier and helped shape regional politics.