Amir Khusrow

Type Figure Region Delhi Sultanate Time 1253–1325 Also known as Amir Khusro

The most outstanding poet, musician and Sufi scholar of the Delhi Sultanate in the 13th–14th centuries, born in India in 1253, who served the Khalji …

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1321–1325Delhi · DelhiStill active at the Delhi court past the age of seventy, he continued composing Persian and early Hindi poetry under Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq and Muhammad bin Tughluq, and participated in musical innovation; he died in 1325 near the Sufi shrine of Nizamuddin Auliya outside Delhi, leaving a vast literary and musical legacy.

Sources

Amīr Khosrow https://www.britannica.com/biography/Amir-Khosrow
Amir Khusrow: The Poet of Sultans and Sufis — Sunil Sharma (2005)