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Amir Khusrau Dehlvi, a poet and scholar, is an iconic figure in the cultural history of the Indian subcontinent. This is the first book to comprehensively illustrate the vast range of khusrau's genius. With divers and insightful visual references, it fully expands his works s they contribute to the making and continuity of Indo-Islamic cultural heritage.

This lavishly illustrated volume exemplifies the innovations and contributions of Amir Khusrau with a vast array of rare manuscripts, objects and images from esveral collections. It includes manuscripts of amir Khusrau, the hamsa of Nizami Ganjavi (in response to whom khusrau wrote his own khamsa), and works of many other eminent poets of the Persianate world who incited and influenced him. music-to trace his writings on music traditions and musical instruments of the time and the oral traditions which claim him as a great musician and innovator of many musical forms; vedic traditions and sanskrit literature-to support his respect for them; Indian seasons and flora and fauna-to depict his love for India; and the historival and cultural environment of the many Delhi sultans and nobles in whose service he spent his entire adult life. It concludes with amir Khusrau as the mystic who continues to be venerated as the beloved of the 13th century Sufi saint Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya.