Contents
PREFACE: Culture as Urban Identity —Shakeel Hossain
FOREWORD —Ravindra Singh, IAS, Secretary, Ministry of Culture
FOREWORD —Cameron Rashti, Historic Cities Programme, AKTC
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT —Ratish Nanda, Projects Director, AKTC
INTRODUCTION: Celebrating the Genius & Pluralism of Amir Khusrau —Shakeel Hossain
PART I: ESSAYS
1. PART I: ESSAYS: AMIR KHUSRAU: IN MAKING OF INDIA’S COMPOSITE CULTURE —Iqtidar Husain Siddiqui
2. PART I: ESSAYS MASNAVIS OF AMIR KHUSRAU —Chander Shekhar
3. PART I: ESSAYS KHAMSAS OF NIZAMI GANJAVI AND AMIR KHUSRAU —Sharif Hussain Qasemi
4. PART I: ESSAYS CONVERSATIONS WITH THE CROW: MAJNUN OF NIZAMI, LAYLA OF KHUSRAU —S.M. Yunus Jaffery
5. PART I: ESSAYS HASAN SIJZI AND AMIR KHUSRAU: FRIENDS, POETS, AND DEVOTEES —Sunil Sharma
6. PART I: ESSAYS MYSTICAL POETRY OF AMIR KHUSRAU AND MIRZA BEDIL: CENTRAL CHARACTERISTICS —Akhlaque Ahmad Ansari
7. PART I: ESSAYS ROOTS OF PERSIAN PARDA SYSTEM IN HINDUSTANI MUSIC: CONCLUSION FROM THE WORKS OF AMIR KHUSRAU —Diloram Karomat
8. PART I: ESSAYS AMIR KHUSRAU IN THE CONTEXT OF INDO-PERSIAN SYNTHESIS IN MEDIEVAL NORTH INDIAN MUSIC —Madhu Trivedi
9. PART I: ESSAYS AMIR KHUSRAU: CONTRIBUTIONS TO HINDUSTANI —Najma Perveen Ahmad
10. PART I: ESSAYSHINDAVI POETRY OF KHUSRAU: COLLECTIVE MEMORY, CULTURAL RADITIONS AND SUFI MUSIC —Azarmi Dukht Safavi
PART II: VERSES and MUSIC
11. PART II: VERSES and MUSIC: VERSES AND MUSIC: INTRODUCTION —Shakeel Hossain
12. PART II: VERSES and MUSIC: KALĀMS
13. PART II: VERSES and MUSIC: CD 1 • QAWWĀLIS
14. PART II: VERSES and MUSIC: CD 2 • GHAZALS & MASNAVIS
15. PART II: VERSES and MUSIC: CD 3 • CLASSICAL
PART III: APPENDICES
16. PART III: APPENDICES: RUH-E-DEHLI: CHISHTI SUFIS OF DELHI SULTANATE, INTRODUCTION TO HERITAGE WALKS —Shakeel Hossain
17. PART III: APPENDICES: ILLUSTRATED CHRONOLOGY
18. PART III: APPENDICES: MAP: PERSIANATE WORLD & KHUSRAU’S EXPEDITIONS
19. PART III: APPENDICES: GLOSSARY —S.M. Yunus Jaffery
20. PART III: APPENDICES: REFERENCES & EXTENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY
21. PART III: APPENDICES: JASHN-E-KHUSRAU 2013: EVENTS, PARTICIPANTS & CONTRIBUTOR
22. PART III: APPENDICES: CREDITS: JASHN-E-KHUSRAU 2013 FESTIVAL & PUBLICATION
23. PART III: APPENDICES: PROJECT BACKGROUND
24. PART III: APPENDICES: NOTES ON DATES, TERMINOLOGY, TRANSLATIONS, AND TRANSLITERATIONS
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As part of a major urban renewal project in the Humayun’s Tomb–Hazrat Nizamuddin Basti area of Delhi, the Aga Khan Trust for Culture has been hosting the Jashn-e-Khusrau festival with the support of the Ford Foundation since 2010.... Read More
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The Aga Khan Trust for Culture focuses on physical, social, cultural and economic revitalisation of communities in the Muslim world.
