Mohsen Fayz Kashani

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Muhsen Feyz Kashani was an Iranian Muslim poet, philosopher and muhaddith (d. 1680). Mohsen Fayz Kashani was born in Kashan to a scholarly family renowned for its learning, Fayz started his education his father, Shah Morteza. His father owned a rich library which benefited Fayz. When he reached the age of twenty, he travelled to Isfahan for further study. However, after a year in Isfahan, he moved to Shiraz to study Hadith and Fiq (Jurisprudence) under Majid Bahrani, one of the leading Shi'ite scholars of his time. Bahrani passed away a few months later and Fayz returned to Isfahan where he joined the circles of great scholar Shaikh Bahai and studied philosophy under Mir Damad. After performing the the hajj, he stayed a short time before returning to Persia.