ʿAbbās II (Shāh), the great-grandson of Shāh ʿAbbās the Great and the seventh monarch of the Ṣafawid dynasty (r. 1052–1077/1642–1666).

He was the eldest son of Shāh Ṣafī I. His mother, Ānā Khānum, was according to some sources a Circassian (Chardin, 7/314; Falsafī, 146) and to others a Georgian princess (Tavernier, 148–149). He was known as Sām Mīrzā (Shāmlū, 1/264) or Sulṭān Muḥammad Mīrzā (Wālih, 153; Roemer, 339) before he became king. The sources disagree over the date of his birth (Waḥīd, 12; Shāmlū, 1/214), b…