Azar Kayvan
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Āzar Kayvān[a] (Template:Born-in; Template:Died-in) was the Zoroastrian high priest of Istakhr and a gnostic philosopher,[1] who was a native of Fars, Iran and later emigrated to Patna in the Mughal Empire during the reign of Emperor Akbar. A member of the Script error: No such module "lang". community (Script error: No such module "lang".),Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. he became the founder of a Zoroastrian school of Script error: No such module "lang". or Illuminationists, which exhibited features of Sufi Muslim influence. This school became known as the Script error: No such module "lang". "Abadi sect"Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. or Azarkeivanian.
Biography
Details regarding Azar Kayvan's life are scant and are mainly derived from the hagiographical literature of the Abadi sect. This hagiography places Azar Kayvan, son of Azar Gashasb, and his ancestry back to Sasan V[b] then through Sasan to the Kayanian dynasty, Keyumars, and finally to Mahābād, the primordial figure who appeared at the very beginning of the great cycle of prophecy, according to the Dasatir-i-Asmani, and who seems to be none other than Adam.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. His mother was named Shirin; her ancestry goes back to Philosopher King Khosrow I.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
According to the Dabestan-e Mazaheb, Azar Kayvan showed signs of his calling to the contemplative life as a young boy. Through dreams and visions he received the teaching of the ancient sages of Iran, which allowed him to give extraordinary replies to questions which were asked of him at the madrasa where he was a student, and which won him the nickname Script error: No such module "lang". "master of the sciences". Internal references in the biography by his devotees allow us to determine that his residence was at Itakhr (about a hundred kilometers north of Shiraz), where he spent the first thirty or forty years of his life in contemplation and where he assembled his first assembly of disciples. Around 1570, drawn by the religious revival which was taking place in India around the Emperor Akbar, he left with them to settle down in the town of Patna in Bihar, where he lived until he died at around eighty-five years of age.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
Students and influence
Amongst his students, certain of these hagiographical sources place key Twelver Shi'a theosophical figures of the Safavid philosophical revival at Isfahan within his circle. Notably among these figures was Baha' al-Din al-'Amili and Mir Fendereski, on whose behest the latter seems to have translated the Yoga Vasistha from Sanskrit into Persian.
Azar Keyvan had tendency towards the philosophical school of Shihab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi, another Persian philosopher of 12th century. He was regarded by his followers to be the reviver of Illuminationism (Illuminationist Philosophy) within the context of Zoroastrianism.[1]
According to one school of thought, Dastur Meherji Rana, who had influenced Akbar and founded the famous lineage of Parsi high priests at Navsari, was a disciple of Azar Kayvan.[2][better source needed]
See also
- Dabestan-e Mazaheb, whose author was a son of Azar Kayvan according to some scholars.
Notes
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References
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- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Goshtasb, Farzaneh; Kamalizadeh, Tahereh (2022). "An Account And Analysis Of Metempsychosis In The Views Of Āzar Kayvān As A Commentator On Illuminationist Philosophy". Philosophy East and West. 72 (2): 295–314, III. doi:10.1353/pew.2022.0042. S2CID 234192879.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Dadrawala, Noshir. "First Dastur Mehereji Rana".
Works cited
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- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Modi, Jamshid Jivanji Jamshedji (1932). "Dastur Azar Kayvan with his Zoroastrian High Priests in Patna in the 16th and 17th centuries". Journal of the K.R. Cama Oriental Institute. 20: 1–85.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Sheffield, Daniel J. (2015). "Primary Source: New Persian". In Stausberg, Michael; Vevaina, Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw; Tessmann, Anna (eds.). The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Zoroastrianism. pp. 529–542. doi:10.1002/9781118785539. ISBN 9781444331356.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Tavakoli-Targhi, Mohamad (1996). "Contested Memories: Narrative Structures and Allegorical Meanings of Iran's Pre-Islamic History". Iranian Studies. 29 (1–2): 1–2, 149–175. doi:10.1080/00210869608701847.
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