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Safavids and the rise of Shi'a Islam
Safavid dynasty from 1501 to 1722
The religious impact of the Safavids was furthermore huge on both contemporary Iran and Azerbaijan, as the population of Azerbaijan was forcibly converted to Shiism in the early 16th century at the same time as the people of what is nowadays Iran, when the Safavids held sway over it. And the territory of modern-day Azerbaijan therefore contains the second largest population of Shia Muslims by percentage right after Iran,[36] and the two are the only nations where the population is by utter majority, nominally, Shia Muslim