# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/amir-khusrow
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:40:10.453Z

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description: "He's called the father of qawwali and the voice of India — a 13th-century Sufi poet who wrote in Persian and Hindavi, bridging devotional music and courtly verse in ways that still shape how the subcontinent sings."
tagline: "Indian poet, writer, singer and scholar (1253–1325)"
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deathDate: "1325-09-27"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Abu'l Hasan Yamīn ud-Dīn Khusrau was born in 1253 and lived through the Delhi Sultanate as a court poet, musician, and scholar. A mystic and spiritual disciple of Nizamuddin Auliya, he wrote primarily in Persian but also in Hindavi, producing work across eleven metrical schemes and verse forms from ghazal to masnavi. He introduced the ghazal style of song into India and is credited as the father of qawwali, the devotional Sufi singing tradition. His mastery ranged from Khāqānī's qasidas to Nizami's khamsa, and he's attributed with the Ḳhāliq Bārī, a vocabulary in verse mixing Arabic, Persian, and Hindavi terms. He died in October 1325, leaving a legacy that threads through the music and poetry of India and Pakistan centuries later.