Born in the South-Iranian city of Lār and studied with Ghiyāth al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī (d. 1542), a scholar who wrote, among other things, a commentary on the Almagest and a commentary on Ulugh Beg’s zīj. Lārī moved from Iran to India and worked some time between 1530 and 1556 at the Moghul court of Humāyūn (1508-56). In 1556 he traveled to the Ottoman Empire, first to Aleppo, then to Istanbul, and finally to Diyārbakr. In Diyārbakr, Lārī worked for the governor Iskandar Pasha. In 1559, he was appointed the head-teacher at the Hüsrev Pasha school in Diyārbakr and the city’s Muftī.[S. Brentjes, BEA]