In Ṭūs Shirwānī studied Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Jurjānī’s (d. 1413) Sharḥ al-Tadhkira under the Shī`ī scholar Sayyid Abū Ṭālib. In mid-1435 he left for Samarqand and studied mathematics, astronomy, kalām, and the linguistic sciences under Qāḍīzāde; there he  studied Nīsābūrī’s (d. 1329) Sharḥ al-Tadhkira. Shirwānī received his diploma on 13 September 1440. He also wrote a commentary on a work of Islamic law, which he presented to Ulugh Beg; and presented to Sultan Mehmed II a super commentary on Qāḍīzāde’s Sharḥ al-Mulakhkhaṣ as well as a work on music. His prominent students were: Muḥyī al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Nīksārī (d. 1495) and Kamāl al-Dīn Mas`ūd al-Shirwānī (d. 1500). [Fazlioglu]