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Mīr Findiriskī

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Muḥammad Ḥusaynī Astarābādī

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Mīr Findiriskī (ca. 970–1050/ca. 1562–1640) was an Iranian philosopher and mystic, one of the main representatives of the intellectual current of the early Ṣafavid period, known as School of Iṣfahān ([3], Vol. 4, p. 28; [12], Vol. 2, p. 922), who had great interest in Indian philosophies and religions, wrote glosses on Abhinanda’s Laghu-Yoga-vāsiṣṭhā (abridgement of Yoga-vāsiṣṭhā), and compiled a selection from the Persian translations of the Yoga-vāsiṣṭhā.

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Sayyid Amīr Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad Ḥusaynī Astarābādī, nicknamed Mīr Findiriskī, was born in the family of sayyids (descendants of prophet Muḥammad), probably in Findirisk (near Astarābād (modern Gurgān) in north-eastern Iran) (or, according to Rizvi [16], at an unknown location in eastern Iran). Apparently, he was educated in Iṣfahān (or, according to Rizvi, in Mashhad [16]), where he appears to have received good training in Peripatetic philosophy and medicine. He...

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  1. The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, UK

    Janis Esots

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  3. World Zoroastrian Organization, Toronto, ON, Canada

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Esots, J. (2018). Mīr Findiriskī. In: Kassam, Z.R., Greenberg, Y.K., Bagli, J. (eds) Islam, Judaism, and Zoroastrianism. Encyclopedia of Indian Religions. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1267-3_1992

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