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Saffarid conquest of Sistan
The Saffarid conquest of Sistan was the seizure of power in Sistan by the coppersmith Ya'qub ibn al-Layth and his ayyar followers, who hailed him as amir in 861.
Saffarid dynasty
The Saffarid dynasty (صفاریان) ruled eastern Iran from 861 to 1003. Founder Ya'qub ibn Layth, a coppersmith, built an empire stretching from India to Fars.
Saffarid fiscal and military system
The Saffarid fiscal and military system (نظام صفاري) was how the Saffarid dynasty of eastern Iran, founded by Yaqub ibn al-Layth in 861, financed its army.
Saffarid invasion of Tabaristan
The Saffarid invasion of Tabaristan was Ya'qub b. Layth's campaign of 873–874 against the Zaydi ruler Hasan b. Zayd, which failed to dislodge him and left no lasting Saffarid conquest.
SAFFiR
SAFFiR, or Shipboard Autonomous Firefighting Robot, is a bipedal humanoid robot built by Virginia Tech for the United States Office of Naval Research to fight fires aboard naval vessels.
Saffir–Simpson scale
The Saffir–Simpson scale, or Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, rates hurricanes 1 to 5 by maximum sustained wind speed, used in the Atlantic and eastern Pacific.
Safflower
Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius), also called false saffron, is a thistle-like annual of the daisy family grown for its edible oil and historically for its red and yellow dyes.
Safford Mine
The Safford Mine is an open-pit copper mine in Graham County, Arizona, owned by Freeport-McMoRan, which began production in December 2007 as the first major Arizona copper mine opened since 1973.
Saffré
Saffré is a commune in Loire-Atlantique, France, with Neolithic and Gallo-Roman remains, a historic lime industry, the protected Bois-Gouët upper Lutetian fossil site, and the WWII maquis de Saffré memorial.
Saffron
Saffron, from Crocus sativus stigmas, is the world's most expensive spice; key compounds crocin, picrocrocin, safranal; graded by ISO 3632; Iran produces about 90%; frequently adulterated.
Saffron (color)
Saffron is a yellow-orange color named after the Crocus sativus spice, hex #F4C430, based on crocin pigments; also India saffron (Kesari), the top band of the Indian flag and a Hindu nationalist symbol.
Saffron (singer)
Saffron (Samantha Marie Sprackling, born 1968, Ibadan, Nigeria) is the British lead singer of electronic rock band Republica, formed 1994, known for "Ready to Go", "Drop Dead Gorgeous", and guest vocals on The Prodigy's "Fuel My Fire".
Saffron Burrows
Saffron Burrows (Saffron Domini Burrows), British actress and former model born 1972 in London; films In the Name of the Father, Deep Blue Sea, Troy, The Bank Job; TV Boston Legal, Law & Order: CI, Mozart in the Jungle, You.
Saffron Lempriere
Saffron Lempriere is an English reality television personality and influencer who joined The Only Way Is Essex in 2018. She also owns a furnishings company.
Saffron Revolution
Saffron Revolution, the August-September 2007 Burmese protest wave led by Buddhist monks after fuel price hikes, suppressed in a deadly junta crackdown, with an Internet shutdown and hundreds of arrests.
Safi
Safi (آسفي, also Asfi) is a port city on Morocco's Atlantic coast in the Marrakech-Safi region, a pottery capital with a major phosphate processing plant and sardine fishing fleet.
Safi al-Din al-Hilli
Safi al-Din al-Hilli (صفي الدين الحلي) was an Arab poet born in Hilla, Iraq, in 1278, court poet to the Artuqid rulers of Mardin and a leading postclassical master.
Safi al-Din al-Urmawi
Safi al-Din al-Urmawi (صفیالدین ارموی) was a 13th-century musician, calligrapher, and chancery official who served the last Abbasid caliphs and the Mongol Ilkhanids, and wrote influential treatises on music theory.
Safi Ali Shah
Safi Ali Shah (صفی علیشاه), born Mirza Hasan Isfahani, was a Sufi master and poet who founded the Safi Ali Shahi branch of the Ni'matullahi order in Qajar Iran.
Safi Hindi
Safi Hindi (الصفي الهندي) was a Sunni Ash'ari theologian and Shafi'i jurist, born near Delhi around 1246, who settled in Damascus, led its scholars, and debated Ibn Taymiyya.
Safi power station
The Safi power station is a 1,386 MW coal-fired plant near Safi on Morocco's Atlantic coast, the first ultra-supercritical coal plant in Africa, opened in 2018.
Safi-ad-Din Ardabili (صفیالدین اسحاق اردبیلی)
Safi-ad-Din Ardabili (صفیالدین اسحاق اردبیلی), known as Sheikh Safi, was a Sufi sheikh of Ardabil who lived from about 1252 to 1334 and founded the Safaviyya order.
Safia Farkash
Safia Farkash (صفية فركاش), also Safia Farkash Al-Barassi, is the widow of Muammar Gaddafi, his second wife since 1970, mother of seven of his eight children, a UN-sanctioned individual from 2011, and majority shareholder of Buraq Air.
Safia/Safdar
Safia/Safdar (सफ़िया/सफ़दर) is a 2026 Hindi social drama directed by Baba Azmi, released on ZEE5 on 16 January 2026, starring Aditi Subedi, Naseeruddin Shah, and Kanwaljit Singh; a woman disguises as a man to save her father's barber shop.
Safiatuddin Syah
Safiatuddin Syah, also known as Tajul Alam Safiatuddin Syah, was the first of four sultanahs of the Aceh Sultanate in northern Sumatra, reigning from 1641 to 1675.
Safina
Safina (سفینه) is a Persian literary term, from the Arabic word for "ship," denoting a compiled manuscript, typically an anthology of poems or a miscellany of prose and verse.
Safinamide
Safinamide (Xadago, Onstryv) is a reversible MAO-B inhibitor and sodium/calcium channel blocker used as 50-100 mg once-daily add-on to levodopa for motor fluctuations in mid- to late-stage Parkinson's disease, approved in the EU (2015) and US (2017).
Safinat al-Najat
Safinat al-Najat (سفينة النجاة, "The Ship of Salvation") is a title shared by several Islamic works, best known a Shafi'i manual by Salim ibn Sumayr.
Safita
Safita (صافيتا) is a town on three hills in the Tartus region of north-western Syria, about 250 km from Damascus, crowned by the medieval Templar keep Chastel Blanc.
Safiye Sultan
Safiye Sultan (صفیه سلطان), born around 1550 of Albanian origin, was the favorite consort of Murad III and valide sultan to Mehmed III, corresponding with Elizabeth I until her banishment in 1603.