Khamsah
work by Amīr Khosrow
Also known as: âKhamsehâ
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Courtier and Hermit
A photograph from AmÄ«r Khusrow's Khamseh, HerÄt school miniature, attributed to BehzÄd, 1485; in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin (MS. 163, fol. 23).
The Khamsah is a collection of five long epic poems written by the Indo-Persian poet, musician, and historian AmÄ«r Khusrow (1253â1325). These poems are written in the masnavi form, a rhyming couplet style. Khusrow's Khamsah was inspired by the earlier work of the Persian poet Nezami and deals with common themes found in Islamic literature. AmÄ«r Khusrow is considered one of India's greatest Persian-language poets and is also credited with developing Hindawi, a precursor to the Urdu language.123
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