Rasa?il-i Hazin-i Lahiji

Born into a wealthy intellectual family in Isfahan, Muhammad ?Ali b. Abi Talib, better known as Hazin Lahiji (d. 1180/1766), was a particularly gifted child. Greatly stimulated by his father, he received a varied education: from literature and the traditional Islamic sciences to mysticism, logic, philosophy and more. Until the siege of Isfahan by the Afghans in 1135/1722, Hazin lived mostly in tha...