The Buyruk or ''Kitab al-Manaqib'' (Book of Exemplary Acts) is the

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of the Shabak. It is written in

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. The Buyruk is written in the form of an interlocution between Shaykh Safi-ad-din Ardabili, founder of the Safaviyya order, and his son Sadr al-Dīn Mūsā on different religious matters, and particularly on the life and principles of the

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order. It also contains poems composed by Shah Ismail I under the pseudonym 'Khatai', which indicates it must have been compiled in the sixteenth century at the earliest.Matti Moosa, ''Extremist Shiites: The Ghulat Sects'', pp 153–155, New York, 1988

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