Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Sharma, Sunil
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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,