Amir Khusrow

Category
LITERATURE - AUTHORS

Language
INDIAN

Am?r Khusrau was born in 1253 in Patiyali, Kasganj district, in modern-day Uttar Pradesh, India, in what was then the Delhi Sultanate, the son of Am?r Saif ud-D?n Mahm?d, a man of Turkic extraction and Bibi Daulat Naz, a native Indian mother.[9] Amir Saif ud-Din Mahmud was a Sunni Muslim. He grew up in Kesh, a small town near Samarkand in what is now Uzbekistan.[citation needed] When he was a young man, the region was despoiled and ravaged by Genghis Khan's invasion of Central Asia, and much of the population fled to other lands, India being a favored destination. A group of families, including that of Amir Saif ud-Din, left Kesh and travelled to Balkh , which was a relatively safe place; from here, they sent representatives to the Sultan of distant Delhi seeking refuge and succour. This was granted, and the group then travelled to Delhi. Sultan Shams ud-Din Iltutmish, ruler of Delhi, was also Turkic like them;[citation needed] indeed, he had grown up in the same region of Central Asia and had undergone somewhat similar circumstances in earlier life.[citation needed] This was the reason the group had turned to him in the first place. Iltutmish not only welcomed the refugees to his court but also granted high offices and landed estates to some of them. In 1230, Amir Saif ud-Din was granted a fief in the district of Patiyali.[citation needed] <

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