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Firuz Shah Zarrin Kolah (Persian: فیروزشاه زرین کلاه, literal meaning in English: The victorious king bearing golden hat) was a Kurdish dignitary, and the seventh in the ancestral line of Shaykh Safi Ardabili, the eponym of the Safavid dynasty of Iran.
In the pre-Safavid written work Safvat as-safa (oldest known extants manuscripts from 1485 and 1491), the origin of the Safavids is traced to Firuz Shah Zarin Kolah who is called a Kurd (from sanjār), while in the post-Safavid manuscripts, this portion "Kurd from Sanjan" has been excised and Piruz Shah Zarin Kollah is made a descendant of the Shi'ite Imams The male lineage of the Safavid family given by the oldest manuscript of the Safwat as-Safa is:"[Sheykh] Safi al-Din Abul-Fatah Ishaaq the son of Al-Sheykh Amin al-din Jebrail the son of al-Saaleh Qutb al-Din Abu Bakr the son of Salaah al-Din Rashid the son of Muhammad al-Hafiz al-Kalaam Allah the son of ‘avaad the son of Birooz (Firuz) al-Kurdi al-Sanjāri.
Firuz Shah likely migrated from Kurdistan to the region of Ardabil in the 11th century.
Genealogy
After the establishment of the Safavids, the genealogy in official texts trace the lineage of Piruz Shah Zarin Kolah to the 7th Shi'ite Imam, Musa al-Kadhim.