Amir Khusrau Dihlavi
Indian, died 1350
Born in Patiyali; died in Delhi.
Amir Khusrau was a poet, scholar and musician who served a succession of sultans at the Delhi court and was a devoted follower of the Sufi saint Nizamuddin Auliya, beside whose shrine he is buried. Writing chiefly in Persian, he composed a Khamsa, five verse romances answering those of Nizami, which became a classic of Persian literature. Later courts commissioned richly illustrated copies of his poems, among them the Mughal court of Akbar.
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