Azarkeivanian

Azarkeivanianism^[1] in Persian: ( آذرکیوانیان ) was one of the Zoroastrian sects that emerged in the Safavid Persian Empire and was founded by the philosopher Azar Kayvan, who was a student of Shihab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi.^[2]

Beliefs

Jivanji Jamshedji Modi deduced that the beliefs of Kayvan and his disciples were partially influenced by the Islamic mystic sect known as Sufism, the Indian spiritual practice of Yoga^[3] and the Illuminationist philosophy of Suhrawardi, but does not give an explicit description of their beliefs.^[4]

Writings

Dasatir book

See also: Dasatir-i-Asmani

Dasatir-i-Asmani was the most important book of the sect and was written by Azar Kayvan, the first part is which comprises sixteen chapters each attributed to ancient Zoroastrian prophets, from Mahabad and Jī-Afrām, who supposedly predated Keyumars, to Sasan V, whom the author designated as a contemporary of the Sasanian ruler Khosrow II, the second part is a Persian translation of the first with commentary.^[5]

Dabestan-e Mazaheb book

See also: Dabestan-e Mazaheb

Dabestan-e Mazaheb In 1856, a Parsi named Keykosrow b. Kāvūs claimed Khosrow Esfandiyar as the author, who was son of Azar Kayvan.^[6]

See also

• List of Zoroastrianism sects