Safavids were Shiite, and Ottomans were Sunni.Ottomans were Sunni, and Safavids were not
Safavids were Shiite, and Ottomans were Sunni.Ottomans were Sunni, and Safavids were not
Safavids were Shiite, and Ottomans were Sunni.Ottomans were Sunni, and Safavids were not
Safavids were Shiite, and Ottomans were Sunni.
The Ottoman Empire was controlled by Sunni Muslims, while the Safavid Empire was ruled by Shia Muslims.
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the Ottomans
The Ottomans were Sunni Muslims, the Safavids Shia Muslims. Ottoman Sultans saw it as part of their religious duty to wage war on what they saw as the heretical Shias and vice versa.
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NO. The Safavids were a rival empire to the Ottomans. The Janissaries were the elite troops of the Ottoman Empire, usually made of Serb, Greek, and Bulgarian Christians who were forcibly converted to Islam and made to fight against all of the Ottomans' enemies in exchange for perceived power.
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