.. s: ; . J . . . Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2018 with funding from Public.Resource.Org https://archive.org/details/amirkhusraumemorOOnewd MEMORIAL VOLUME AMIR KHUSRAU MEMORIAL VOLUME AMIR KHUSRAU PUBLICATIONS DIVISION MINISTRY OF INFORMATION AND BROADCASTING GOVERNMENT OF INDIA First Edition: October 1975 (Kartika 1897 Saka) Reprint Edition: 2006 (Saka 1928) © Publications Division ISBN : 81-230-1398-1 Price: Rs. 150.00 A&C-ENG-REP-071-2006-07 Published by: Director, Publications Division Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India Soochna Bhawan, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110 003. http://www.publicationsdivision.nic. in EDITING: Naveen Joshi COVER DESIGN: Alka Nayyar Sales Centres : • Delhi - Soochna Bhawan, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003 • Hall No. 196, Old Secretariat, Delhi-110054 • Mumbai - 701, B' Wing, 7th Floor, Kendriya Sadan, Belapur, Navi Mumbai-400614 • Kolkata - 8, Esplanade East, Kolkata-700069 • Chennai - ‘A’ Wing, Rajaji Bhawan, Besant Nagar, Chennai-600090 • Patna - Bihar State Co-operative Bank Building, Ashoka Rajpath, Patna-800004 • Thiruvananthapuram - Press Road, Near Govt. Press, Thiruvananthapuram-695001. • Lucknow - Hall No. 1, 2nd Floor, Kendriya Bhawan, Sector 8, Aliganj, Lucknow-226024 • Hyderabad - Block 4, 1st Floor, Gruhakalpa Complex, M.G. Road, Nampally, Hyderabad-500001 • Bangalore - 1st Floor, ‘F’ Wing, Kendriya Sadan, Koramangala, Bangalore-560034 • Ahmedabad - Ambica Complex, 1st Floor, Paldi, Ahmedabad-380007 • Guwahati - House No. 07, New Colony, Chenikuthi, K.K.B, Road, Guwahati-781003 Typeset at: Print-O-World, 2579, Mandir Lane, Shadipur, New Delhi-110 008 Printed at: Viba Press Pvt. Ltd., Okhla Phase-H, New Delhi-20 The Contributors* Dr. S.B.P. Nigam, Reader in History, Kumkshetra University. Dr. M. Rahman, Head of the Department of Persian, Maulana Azad College, Calcutta. Dr. Shujaat Ali Sandilvi, Head of the Department of Urdu, Lucknow University. Shahab Sarmadee, Professor, Centre of Advanced Study, Department of History, Aligarh Muslim University. Dr. S.A.H. Abidi, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Delhi University. A. A. Ansari, Professor, Department of English, Aligarh Muslim University. Dr. Prabhakar Machwe, Former Secretary, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi. Nazir Ahmed, Professor and Head of the Department of Persian, Aligarh Muslim University. Syed Sabahuddin Abdur Rahman, Joint Secretary, Darul Musanaffin Shibli Academy, Azamgarh. S.H. Askari, Retd. Professor and Head of the Department of History, Patna University. Abdul Aziz "Ameeq" Hanfee, Programme Executive, Urdu Service of External Services Division, A.I.R., New Delhi. Dr. Ziauddin Sajjadi, Professor, Tehran University, Iran. *First Edition, October, 1975 * . ' . ■ •