ʿAbbās I (Shāh), styled ‘the Great’, the fifth reigning monarch of the Ṣafawid dynasty (r. Dhū al-Qaʿda 996–Jumādā I 1038/September 1587–January 1628), a son of Shāh Muḥammad Khudā-Bandah and grandson of Shāh Ṭahmāsb I.

ʿAbbās Mīrzā, the future king, who was the third son of Shāh Muḥammad Khudā-Bandah by his wife Khayr al-Nisāʾ Begum, was born on the first night of Ramaḍān 978/27 January 1571 in Herat. His mother was the daughter of Mīr ʿAbd Allāh Khān, the governor of Māzandarān (ascribed to Mīr Qawām al-Dīn Marʿashī), and he w…