The Content and the Form in Amir Khusraw's Duval Rani va Khizr Khan

摘要

Modern scholars approach Amir Khusraw's Duval Rani va Khizr Khan as either a historical ma$navi that relates Delhi Sultanate conquests or as a romantic masnavi that combines the love story between the crown prince and a Hindu princess with tragedy resulting from their fate. While the content of the Duval Rani va Khizr Khan is well known, the form of the text and its implications for reading both history and romance remains unexplored. Reading the form inverts the historic and romantic division of the text. It reveals the historical elements as romantic panegyric created by Khusraw in praise of the Delhi Sultanate and the romance as a source-based historical biography.