Ashkivarī, Quṭb al-Dīn - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Rizvi, Sajjad H.
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Quṭb al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Shaykh ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb Ashkivarī Daylamī, also known as Sharīf-i Lāhījī (fl. eleventh/seventeenth century), was an Imāmī Illuminationist (ishrāqī) philosopher and exegete whose family origins were on the Caspian coast of Iran but who was born in Qazvīn. A student of the famed jurist-philosopher Mīr Dāmād (d. 1041/1631), he wrote several works reflecting the philosophical method of his teacher; he is best known for his philosophical history Maḥbūb al-qulūb ("Beloved to the hearts"). Little is known about Ashkivarī'