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I think we all heard the story of how the persians were sunnis until the safavids with Ismail I converted them to Shia Islam .
But I don't think that's true , the persians helped Ali during the first fitna , they opposed the mostly sunni umayyads , the shia immams lived in Iran , many persian scholars were shia , the Hashashin (a shia group of assassins) had their base in Persia and many other factors .
So what d you think ? were they really sunnis before Ismail ? or maybe they converted to Sunni islam sometime around the 10th or 11th century ?
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