Sunil Sharma is Senior Lecturer in Persian at Boston University. Works include: Persian Poetry at the Indian Frontier (Permanent Black, 2000).

• AcknowledgmentsMap 1 INTRODUCTION2 IN A CITY OF SULTANS, SUFIS, AND POETS: AMIR KHUSRAW AND DELHIMuslim India in the Thirteenth CenturyEarly Life and CareerKeeping Company with SufisLast Years 3 AMIR KHUSRAW AND THE WORLD OF PERSIAN LITERATUREPersian Literature in IndiaPoetics of the Sacred and Profane GhazalLegend and History in Narrative PoetryProse Works 4 AMIR KHUSRAW AND INDIAN CULTURAL TRADITIONSMusic and QawwaliHindavi PoetryDescribing IndiaThe Poet in Our Time APPENDIX I: Biographical account of Amir Khusraw from Amir Khurd’s Siyar al-awliyaAPPENDIX II: Tale of the Tatar princess Gulnari, narrated on Tuesday in the Red Pavilion, from Amir Khusraw’s Hasht bihisht ChronologyGlossaryBibliographyIndex

Sunil Sharma is Senior Lecturer in Persian at Boston University. Works include: Persian Poetry at the Indian Frontier (Permanent Black, 2000).

• AcknowledgmentsMap 1 INTRODUCTION2 IN A CITY OF SULTANS, SUFIS, AND POETS: AMIR KHUSRAW AND DELHIMuslim India in the Thirteenth CenturyEarly Life and CareerKeeping Company with SufisLast Years 3 AMIR KHUSRAW AND THE WORLD OF PERSIAN LITERATUREPersian Literature in IndiaPoetics of the Sacred and Profane GhazalLegend and History in Narrative PoetryProse Works 4 AMIR KHUSRAW AND INDIAN CULTURAL TRADITIONSMusic and QawwaliHindavi PoetryDescribing IndiaThe Poet in Our Time APPENDIX I: Biographical account of Amir Khusraw from Amir Khurd’s Siyar al-awliyaAPPENDIX II: Tale of the Tatar princess Gulnari, narrated on Tuesday in the Red Pavilion, from Amir Khusraw’s Hasht bihisht ChronologyGlossaryBibliographyIndex

Sunil Sharma is Senior Lecturer in Persian at Boston University. Works include: Persian Poetry at the Indian Frontier (Permanent Black, 2000).

• AcknowledgmentsMap 1 INTRODUCTION2 IN A CITY OF SULTANS, SUFIS, AND POETS: AMIR KHUSRAW AND DELHIMuslim India in the Thirteenth CenturyEarly Life and CareerKeeping Company with SufisLast Years 3 AMIR KHUSRAW AND THE WORLD OF PERSIAN LITERATUREPersian Literature in IndiaPoetics of the Sacred and Profane GhazalLegend and History in Narrative PoetryProse Works 4 AMIR KHUSRAW AND INDIAN CULTURAL TRADITIONSMusic and QawwaliHindavi PoetryDescribing IndiaThe Poet in Our Time APPENDIX I: Biographical account of Amir Khusraw from Amir Khurd’s Siyar al-awliyaAPPENDIX II: Tale of the Tatar princess Gulnari, narrated on Tuesday in the Red Pavilion, from Amir Khusraw’s Hasht bihisht ChronologyGlossaryBibliographyIndex