Yaminuddin Abul
Hasan Ameer Khusro
or
Amir Khusrau, as he is popularly known in the Indian sub-continent, is a great
name in literature and music. Born in 1252 in a Turkish family at Patiyali in
the Kasganj district of Uttar Pradesh, Amir Khusrau was a man of culture who was
witness to the reigns of six Sultans of Delhi Sultanate spanning different dynasties:
Slave, Khilji and Tughlaq.
An academic genius, Amir Khusrau was a prolific writer.
Composed in 1289, Qiran-us-sadin is the first historical masnavi of Amir Khusrau. Written in verse, it describes the meeting between Kaiqubad, the Sultan of Delhi, and his father Bughra Khan, the governor of Bengal and son of Balban.
Amir Khusrau mixed spiritual and mundane with ease. One
the one hand, he has a liking for mysticism and became a disciple of the famous
Sufi Chisti saint Nizamuddin Auliya, on the other, he used to accompany the Sultanate
army in their military expeditions. He was captured by the Mongols during the
fight which claimed the life of Prince Muhammad, son of Slave Sultan Balban, in
1286. However, he managed to escape.
An academic genius, Amir Khusrau was a prolific writer.
Composed in 1289, Qiran-us-sadin is the first historical masnavi of Amir Khusrau. Written in verse, it describes the meeting between Kaiqubad, the Sultan of Delhi, and his father Bughra Khan, the governor of Bengal and son of Balban.
His Khazain ul
Futuh, also known as Tarikh-i-Alai, deals with the first fifteen years of the
reign of 'Ala-ud-din Khalji.
Nuh Siphr (the nine skies), another historical masnavi described the reign of Mubarak Khilji.
In 1291 Amir Khusrau wrote Miftah-ul-Futh where he deals
with the military campaigns of Jalaluddin khilji, the founder of the Khilji dynasty.
It contains the account of the suppression of the rebellion by Malik Chajju.
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