Khusro’s Dibache and the Possibility of Comparison

Abstract

Amir Khusro’s (1253-1325) Dibache Ghurrat al-Kamal is an important writing in terms of defining a poetics in which the critical categories are regulated by a deep religious sensibility. The present study works towards the determination of a theoretical framework within which any task of comparison between Khusro’s tradition of naqd and the western critical tradition could be undertaken.