Azarkeivanianism[1] inPersian: ( آذرکیوانیان ) was one of theZoroastrian sects that emerged in theSafavid Persian Empire and was founded by the philosopherAzar Kayvan, who was a student ofShihab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi.[2]
Jivanji Jamshedji Modi deduced that the beliefs of Kayvan and his disciples were partially influenced by the Islamic mystic sect known asSufism, the Indian spiritual practice ofYoga[3] and theIlluminationist philosophy of Suhrawardi, but does not give an explicit description of their beliefs.[4]
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, fromMahabad and Jī-Afrām, who supposedly predatedKeyumars, to Sasan V, whom the author designated as a contemporary of the Sasanian rulerKhosrow II, the second part is a Persian translation of the first with commentary.[5]
In1856, aParsi named Keykosrow b. Kāvūs claimed Khosrow Esfandiyar who was son of Azar Kayvanas as the author ofDabestan-e Mazaheb.[6]
...identified the author as Mīr Du'l-feqār Ardestānī (ca. 1026-81/1617-70), better known under his pen name Mollā Mowbad or Mowbadšāh, and this attribution is now generally accepted.