For 10 points, name these "red-headed" holy warriors under Shah Ismail who helped found the Safavid Empire.
According to eyewitness accounts, members of this group were forced to prove their loyalty by eating pieces of Murad Beg's body o f a skewer. Ali al-Karaki forced this group to give up its oral tradition of legends about Abu Muslim. This group was motivated by poems proclaiming "I am Alexander" and "I am God's mystery" written under the pen-name Khata'i. Its power diminished thanks to dissension between its constitutive tribes, such as the Ustajlu (ooh-stahj-loo) and Rumlu. This group was established under Sheikhs Junayd and Haydar, who proselytized among the Black Sheep Turkomans of Uzun Hasan. Their administrative dominance was undermined by Georgian and Armenian slaves converted to Islam in the 17th century, a ter Shah Abbas decided to replace them with a ghulam army. These horse-mounted murid warriors wore turbans around an item gored twelve times for the twelve imams. For 10 points, name these "red-headed" holy warriors under Shah Ismail who helped found the Safavid Empire.
According to eyewitness accounts, members of this group were forced to prove their loyalty by eating pieces of Murad Beg's body o f a skewer.
Qizilbash (kih-zihl-bahsh) [or the Redheads; prompt on Safavids; prompt on Su s or Turks or Turkomans]