How to pronounce “safavi” in English

Mulla Sadra is an important later mystic philosopher who lives in the Safavid empire.

that the Ottoman Empire-- the green bit is Sunni, and the Safavid Empire, the red, pink, orange bit, is Shiite.

The School of Shiraz, which exists just before the rise of the Safavids in Iran, was kind of a group of Avicenna philosophers