Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
[Article]
Sharma, Sunil
Leiden
Brill
(2,748 words)
Abū l-Ḥasan Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī (651-725/1253-1325) was the greatest Indo-Persian poet of the sultanate period. He is better known today for his devotion to his Chishtī Ṣūfī master, Niẓām al-Dīn Awliyāʾ (d. 725/1325). His sobriquet Tūtī-i Hind ("Parrot of India"), comparing the eloquent poet to the sweet-talking parrot, indicates his canonical status as a poet of Persian. He was primarily a court poet, whose Persian poetry was read in every part of the Persianate world, and a small corpus of it,