Acknowledgments
Map
1 INTRODUCTION
2 IN A CITY OF SULTANS, SUFIS, AND POETS: AMIR KHUSRAW AND DELHI
Muslim India in the Thirteenth Century
Early Life and Career
Keeping Company with Sufis
Last Years
3 AMIR KHUSRAW AND THE WORLD OF PERSIAN LITERATURE
Persian Literature in India
Poetics of the Sacred and Profane Ghazal
Legend and History in Narrative Poetry
Prose Works
4 AMIR KHUSRAW AND INDIAN CULTURAL TRADITIONS
Music and Qawwali
Hindavi Poetry
Describing India
The Poet in Our Time
APPENDIX I: Biographical account of Amir Khusraw from Amir Khurd’s Siyar al-awliya
APPENDIX II: Tale of the Tatar princess Gulnari, narrated on Tuesday in the Red Pavilion, from Amir Khusraw’s Hasht bihisht
Chronology
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Sunil Sharma is Instructor in Persian and Urdu Languages and Literatures Harvard University.
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