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Abū'l-Ḥasan Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī, commonly known as Amir Khusraw Dihlavi, was an Indo-Persian poet in the Delhi Sultanate.

Biography
Khusraw was born in 1253 in Patiyali in northern India, then ruled by the Delhi Sultanate. His father was Sayf al-Din Mahmud (died 1260), a Turkic officer from the Hazara-yi Lachin clan, who had immigrated from Transoxiana to India during the reign of Sultan Shams al-Din Iltutmish ((r. 1211 – 1236)). Khusraw's mother was the daughter of the Indian officer and convert to Islam, Imad al-Mulk (died 1273).