Talk:Amir Khusrau/Archive 1

message: Isn't Amir Khusro also credited with "inventing" the sitar (and some other musical instruments)? Sarabseth 20:57, 21 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: There is no controversy that Tabla was invented by Amir Kusro by splitting the traditional indian drum.  However there is lots of confusion about Sitar.  Sitar existed before Amir Khusro in some form, was reshaped by him, and now is in a form that was reshaped in 18th century.  The reason for confusion being that the word Sitar is itself confusing.  The word has persian origin and can sound Seh-Taar (3 strings) or See-Taar (30 strings).  To add to confusion, there was a legendary sitar player named Khusro Khan in the 18th century, exactly the same time the sitar underwent modern shape.  Maybe the 18th century sitar player Amir Khusro got credit for the modern sitar and then the 13th century Sufi Amir Khuro was confused with it.Hassanfarooqi 13:08, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Invention of Tabla and Sitar

message: There are two entries in "Works" which use the word Hindvi.  Should this perhaps be Hindi? Sarabseth 14:21, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I think Hindvi is the term for the dialects of central and northern India, basically like Hindustani. Mar de Sin Speak up! 20:23, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hindvi or Hindi? 

message: This is getting really annoying! I tried before to get through to Yurik, and I've just tried again.  If this happens again, can someone else please try to get his attention? --Sarabseth 02:37, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Everything is as it suppose to, see my talk. --Yurik 05:09, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yurikbot 

message: I'm gonna go ahead and change the Hindi translation to the more scholarly IAST or Library of Calcutta Romanization.  Thanks. I would really appreciate it if someone would give the Hindi for the Hindi riddles. Mar de Sin Speak up! 20:25, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Transliteration 

message: Does anyone have any objection if we take out the bollywood song, and just retain the lyrics, translation and discussion of Zee Haal-e-Miskeen? --Sarabseth 02:49, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bollywood Song 

message: his origin, self-perception and spoken languages do not seem to be adequately represented in the article. Here are a few sources that clarify the issue:
 Dr. Iraj Bashiri. "Originally a Turk, Amir Khusrau spoke Persian fluently and was familiar with Arabic, Hindi, and Sanskrit."
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Amir Khusrau: Memorial Volume - Page 1, 
by AmД«r Khusraw DihlavД« - 1975 - 416 pages
"Amir Khusrau was proud of his lineage as a "Turk-e-Hindustani", and tradition credits him with knowledge of Turkish, Arabic, Persian and the vernaculars of"
Amir Khusrau as a Genius - Page 9
by б№ўabДЃбёҐuddД«n К»AbdurraбёҐmДЃn - 1982 - 125 pages
"Khwaja is believed to have said very often to Khusrau, "O Turk! I may get disgusted of my self but never of you". (Munis-u'l-Arwah, by Princess Jahan Ara, MSS, Shibli Academy, Khazinat-u'l-Asfiya"
The Case for Pakistan - Page 117
by M. Rafique Afzal - 1979 - 191 pages
"Amir Khusrau (14th century), a Turk of mixed parentage and one of the greatest figures in the realm of Persian literature and poetry"
The BДЃgМІбє– O BahДЃr: Or, The Garden and the Spring - Page vii
by Khusrau - 1852 - 251 pages
"His grandfather, who bore the name of Turk, came to ... His son Amir Khusrau succeeded to the royal favour, and enjoyed the confidence and patronage of ..."
The Visva-bharati Quarterly - Page 157
by Visva-Bharati, Rabindranath Tagore, Hirendranath Datta, Sir
Surendranath Tagore - 1923
"725 AH ), "the Indian Turk," stands as one of the leading figures whose appreciation of India, her sciences"
Marx, Great October, India, and the Future - Page 96
by Hirendranath Mukerjee - 1984
"in the 14th century, Amir Khusrau, court poet of the ... , a fine, many-sided genius in love with India (an 'Indian Turk' he called himself) looked about"
Islamic Culture - Page 219
by Islamic Cultural Board, Muhammad Asad, Academic and Cultural
Publications Charitable Trust (Hyderabad, India), Marmaduke William
Pickthall - 1927
"Amir Khusrau himself was the son of a Turk-ish father and a Rajput (Rawal) mother, and was born _Jn Patiala. He lost his father early, and his mother's"
Indian Literary Criticism: Theory and Interpretation - Page 92
by G. N. Devy - 2002 - 446 pages
"... AMIR KHUSRAU Amir Khusrau (AD 1253-1325) was of Turkish origin;"
 --Weiszman 22:30, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Khusro was a Turk and spoke Turkish