Founded by Shah Esmal, he was in his teens when he used his forces to seize Iran and Iraq. He called himself the shah or king of the new persian state. He sent shia preachers to the anataian peninsula, to convert members of the turkish tribes, in the ottoman empire. He also ordered the massacre of Sunni Muslims, when he conquered Baghdad in 1508. He went to war with the ottoman empire, and the ottoman empire won, but a few years later he regained Tabriz back.