Education
The famous Persian philosopher Mulla Sadra also studied under him.
The famous Persian philosopher Mulla Sadra also studied under him.
His full name is given as Sayyed Mir Abulqasim Astarabadi (Persian: سید ابولقاسم استرآبادی), and he is famously known as Fendereski. He was patronized by both the Safavid and Mogul courts. Mir Fendereski remains a mysterious and enigmatic figure about whom we know very little.
He was probably born around 1562-1563 and that he died age eighty.
Mir Fendereski was trained in the works of Avicenna as he thought the Avicennian medical and philosophical compendiums of al-Qanun (The Canon) and First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Shifa (The Cure) in Isfahan.