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and killed by the qurchis (the royal bodyguards). After his death, with the support of the majority of the Qizilbash tribes and the endorsement of Tahmasp's influential daughter, Pari Khan Khanum, Ismail Mirza, who had been imprisoned by his father for twenty years, was crowned king as Ismail II. The new shah's reign turned out to be short and murderous. The long years of imprisonment had left him suffering from paranoia,

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