الصراع الصفوي العثماني ين التوصيف المذهبي و الدوافع الجيوسياسية

Abstract EN

The Safavid state posed a great danger to the Mamluks and the Ottomans, given that it had close spiritual ties with its Turkmen followers in both the Mamluk and Ottoman states, which led to the destabilization of this region and the Safavids’ exploitation of it to implement their goals.

However, the Safavid-Ottoman confrontation was not only a Sunni Ottoman confrontation with the new Shiite Safavid state in Iran, but it was a natural Ottoman reaction to the expansionist political ambitions of the Safavids in Anatolia.

This study comes to find out the sectarian allegations of the conflict, and link them to it to reach the geopolitical reasons that moved the events from behind the curtain, and to try to explain them, and to determine the extent of their impact on the management of the conflict between the two countries? To what extent was the Ottoman-Safavid relations considered a great challenge? Is religion historically the main and decisive factor in the relationship between Iran and the Arabs? By understanding the nature of the Ottoman Safavid conflict.

The study sees the Ottoman-Safavid conflict that left its traces behind despite the end of both the Safavid and Ottoman states, to be embodied in the conflict between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which is the leader of the Sunni Muslim world, and the Iranian Republic, which represents the Shiite Islamic world.

Doctrinal characterization remains in place among them to hide behind its curtain the real geopolitical motives.