Qasim-i Anvar
Mu'in al-Din Ali Husayni Sarabi Tabrizi, commonly known by his laqab of Qasim-i Anvar was a Sufi mystic, poet, and a leading da'i of the Safavid order.
Biography
Mu'in al-Din Ali was born in 1356 in Sarab in the Azerbaijan region. According to the historians H. Javadi and K. Burrill / Encyclopædia Iranica, he was a native speaker of Azeri Turkish, while the historians Siavash Lornejad and Ali Doostzadeh state that he was most likely a native speaker of Fahlavi. Mu'in al-Din Ali preferred to use Persian, which he was fluent in. He grew up in the neighbouring city of Tabriz, where he received his education. In his mid-teens, he became a disciple of Sadr al-Din Musa, who was the head of the Safavid order.Due to a vision seen by Mu'in al-Din Ali, he was given the laqab Qasim-i Anvar by Sadr al-Din Musa. Following his completion of his training at the city of Ardabil, Qasim-i Anvar given the khirqa by Sadr al-Din Musa. This cloak granted Qasim-i Anvar the right to convert others to his faith and offer spiritual teaching. Qasim-i Anvar later stayed in Gilan for some time as a missionary, and then went to Khurasan. He initially stayed at Nishapur, but was forced to move to Herat due to facing hostility from the ulama. According to his own writings, Qasim-i Anvar had established himself at Herat by 1377/78, and would stay there until his banishment in 1426/27.
Following his banishment from Herat, Qasim-i Anvar went to the city of Samarkand, where he stayed at the court of Shahrukh's son, Ulugh Beg. A few years later, Qasim-i Anvar went back to Khurasan, where he died at Kharjird in October/November 1433.