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Shah Abbas, great grandson of Ismail followed the same system of the Ottoman janissaries by taking Christian children from the Caucasus and making them 'slave soldiers', and likewise with the janissaries did the Safavid ghulam also rise to be governors, commanders etc.

Shah Abbas made his sons grow in captivity and even gauged the eyes out of some of them & his grandsons, thus they grew up in terror & weakness.

Shah Ismail was only a year old when his father died fighting the Cherkess and had a strict religious upbringing within the Savafi order, he was only 12 years old when he led his first campaign against the Aq Qoyunlu which was a success, at the age of 14 he founded the Safavid state, at 20 he conquered Iraq and defeated the Uzbeks, at 25 he conquered the whole realm of the Aq Qoyunlu thus incorporating Persia.

The Muslim rulers of India didn't prioritize the proselytization of Islam in the Subcontinent because they didn't want to bring political instability since they ruled over a majority Hindu population, the conversion of the locals mainly happened due to the Sufi turuq.

The first thing Babur did when he conquered Delhi was to go to the graves of Sufi masters and then as 2nd to those of former Muslim rulers.