"Khizr Comes to the Ascetic's Cell", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi
ca. 1450
Medium
Ink and opaque watercolor on paper
Dimensions
Page: H. 13 1/2 in. (34.3 cm) W. 10 1/4 in. (26 cm) Painting: H. 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm) W. 8 1/16 in. (20.5 cm)
Classification
Codices
Department
Islamic Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Kraus, 1976
Accession Number
1976.283
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Amir Khusrau Dihlavi · 1228–1350
**Amir Khusrau Dihlavi (c. 1253–1325)** was an Indo-Persian poet, musician, scholar, and Sufi mystic of the Delhi Sultanate, celebrated as one of medieval India’s greatest literary figures and often called the “Parrot of India.” Born in Patiyali (in present-day Uttar Pradesh) to a Turkish father who served in the Delhi court and an Indian mother, he lost his father young and was raised in Delhi by...