Ab’ul Hasan Yamīnud-DīnKhusrau better known as Amir Khusrow, the most influential musician of the Delhi Sultanate, was a poet, writer, courtier, linguist, Sufi and a forerunner of composite culture of India.

   He served as a minister to two sultans, have been credited with inventing twenty-two ragas. some of which came into being under Iranian influences by putting together a local tune along with an Iranian tune.

    Although he is sometimes erroneously referred to as the inventor of instruments such as the sitar and the tabla and of various other musical forms which didn’t develop until many centuries after his death, which makes the extent of his contribution to Indian music more legendary than factual, nevertheless he symbolizes a crucial turning point in the development of Indian music.

   Amir Khusrow was an icon representing a growing Persian influence on Indian music, effects of which....