Amir Khusrow Dehlawi

Author: Mumtaz Husain
Publisher: National Amir Khusrow Society
Year: 1986
Language: English
Pages: 96
ISBN/UPC (if available): N/A

Description

Based on his own writings and those of his contemporaries, this book is a contribution of inestimable value towards the study of Amir Khusrow’s life, times, and works.

Here is a systematic and patient study of various aspects of Amir Khusrow’s life and works and a thorough survey and investigations for settling new facts in a refreshingly new light, written by a talented Pakistani scholar Prof. Mumtaz Husain.

In this book the author has established a number of new facts about the life of Amir Khusrow and that of his father and maternal grand father. He has also made a critical assessment of Khusrow’s poetry and has proved it with ample evidence that Hafiz Sherazi followed Khusrow in his Ghazal writing.

The book is a contribution of inestimable value towards the study of Amir Khusrow’s life times, and works.

Contents

Foreword
Preface

Introduction
Khusrow’s Forefathers
Khusrow’s Maternal Grandfather
Khusrow’s Life-history
An Assessment of Khusrow’s Works

References and Notes