A few years after his birth, his family migrated to Herat, where he was able to study Peripateticism, mathematics, Persian literature, natural sciences, Arabic language, logic, rhetoric and Islamic philosophy at the Nizamiyyah University.
Uns poucos anos despois do seu nacemento, a súa familia emigrou a Herat, onde puido estudar peripateticismo, matemáticas, literatura persa, ciencias naturais, lingua árabe, lóxica, retórica e filosofía islámica na universidade de Nizamiyyah.