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1549, William Thomas, “An abbridgement of the Uenetian histories from the edificacion of the citee vnto this daie”, in The historie of Italie a boke excedyng profitable to be redde, London: Thomas Berthelet, page fol. 108:He entred in league with Vsnucassan kyng of Persia (whose successour is nowe called Sophie) against the Turke.
1980, Roger Savory, Iran under the Safavids, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, published 2007, →ISBN, page 259:The Safavid shahs were commonly termed by Western writers "Sophie", "Sophy", "Sophi" or "Soffi". All these terms were probably corruptions of Ṣafī, the name of the founder of the Safavid Order, rather than of Ṣūfī, as the Safavid supporters called themselves.