Azar Kayvan

Āzar Kayvān (b. between 1529 and 1533; d. between 1609 and 1618; the first name sometimes transcribed Adhar) was a Pseudo-Zoroastrian high priest of Estakhr and native of Fars who emigrated to Patna in Mughal India during the reign of the Emperor Akbar and became the founder of a Zoroastrian school of ishraqiyyun or Illuminationists. Exhibiting features of a new Zoroastrian school that was heavily influenced by Sufi-Islam, this school became known as the kis-e Abadi (Abadi sect) or as the .

Azar Kayvan

Āzar Kayvān (b. between 1529 and 1533; d. between 1609 and 1618; the first name sometimes transcribed Adhar) was a Pseudo-Zoroastrian high priest of Estakhr and native of Fars who emigrated to Patna in Mughal India during the reign of the Emperor Akbar and became the founder of a Zoroastrian school of ishraqiyyun or Illuminationists. Exhibiting features of a new Zoroastrian school that was heavily influenced by Sufi-Islam, this school became known as the kis-e Abadi (Abadi sect) or as the .