"A Bathhouse Keeper is Consumed by Passion for his Beloved", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi

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A Bathhouse Keeper is Consumed by Passion for his Beloved', Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi, 1597–98, Made in present-day Pakistan, Lahore, Main support: Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper, Image: H. 10 in. ( cm), Codices, Painted by Nar Singh, Matla’ al-Anwar (Rising of the Luminaries), the first poem of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi’s Quintet, is comprised of 3310 verses compiled approximately in twenty Maqalat (didactic discourses). Matla’ al-Anwar is a response by Amir Khusrau to Nizami Ganjavi’s Makhzan al-Asrar

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