Amir Khusrow

Amir Khusrow (1253 - October 1325), whose full name was Abu'l Hasan Yamin ud-Din Khusrau, was a poet, musician and scholar of the Delhi Sultanate and the most celebrated Persian-language poet of India. ^{1 2} Born at Patiyali and raised in Delhi, he served the courts of eight sultans, wrote in Persian and in Hindavi, and was credited with musical and poetic innovations that remain rooted in the culture of South Asia, earning him the epithet Tuti-i Hind, the Parrot of India. ^{1 2}

In 1310 Khusrow became a disciple of the Chishti Sufi saint Nizamuddin Auliya of Delhi; the English article calls him in its lead a mystic and a spiritual disciple of the saint, and states the year of the discipleship in its biography. ¹ The Arabic article likewise states that he was a follower and disciple of Nizam al-Din Awliya, and the Urdu article calls him the saint's spiritual disciple (murid). ^{3 2} A completed discipleship of this kind, attested for the man himself in three independent texts, is what settles his recorded affiliation as Sufi; no legal school is named for him in any text read. ^{1 3}

Khusrow died in October 1325, a few months after his master, and the Urdu article states expressly that he died in Delhi. ^{2 4} October 1325 falls within 725 AH, the Hijri year the Arabic article gives for his death. ³