Английская Википедия:Azar Kayvan

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Āzar KayvānШаблон:Efn (Шаблон:Born-in; Шаблон: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 Шаблон:Transl community (Шаблон:Transl),Шаблон:Sfnp), he became the founder of a Zoroastrian school of Шаблон:Transl or Illuminationists, which exhibited features of Sufi Muslim influence. This school became known as the Шаблон:Transl "Abadi sect".Шаблон:Sfnp

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 VШаблон:Efn 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.Шаблон:Sfnp His mother was named Shirin; her ancestry goes back to Philosopher King Khosrow I.Шаблон:Sfnp

According to the Dabestan-e Mazaheb, as a young boy Azar Kayvan showed signs of his calling to the contemplative life. 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 Шаблон:Transl "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.Шаблон:Sfnp

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]Шаблон:Better source needed

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