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The Night of Destiny (Young Man of Destiny), a page from the Quintet by Amir Khusraw Dilhui (1253-1325)
(ليلة القدر شاب القدر ،صفحة من الخماسية لأمير خسرو ديلهوي )

Title	The Night of Destiny (Young Man of Destiny), a page from the Quintet by Amir Khusraw Dilhui (1253-1325)
Title Original	ليلة القدر شاب القدر ،صفحة من الخماسية لأمير خسرو ديلهوي
Publication Date:	Approx 1450
Publication Place	India, Delhi - Aga Khan Museum
Subject	Opaque watercolor and ink on paper
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	34.8 × 25.2 سم
Library:	Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID	AKM13
Record ID	object;EPM;ca;Mus21;14;ar
Library Location	Aga Khan Museum
Date	Approx 1450
Notes	This page shows a portion of five-volume poetry known as the Khamsiya written in Persian between 1298 and 1301 by the prominent Indian poet Amir Khusraw of Delhi. This poet is widely known as Khusraw. He also wrote historical epics and romantic texts and worked under the patronage of the Turkish nobility in India in the late thirteenth century before coming under the patronage of the royal court in Delhi. Khusraw's poetry in The Five is interesting in form and is a collection of five poems composed by Persian poet Nizami (d. 1209) This copy was produced near Delhi in the 15th century and at some point in history its contents became known as “Laylat al-Qadr.” It is the only page in the Aga Khan Museum’s collection that originates from this scattered manuscript.
Sample Text	“Laylat al-Qadr (Young Man of Destiny), a page from (The Quintet) by Amir Khusraw Dilhui (1253-1325)” in Explore Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;ca;Mus21;14;ar
Bu sayfanın künyesi	MWNF Working Number: CA1 14
Seçili bibliyografya	[1] Junod, Benoît and Ladan, Akbarnia (eds),Los Mundos del Islam en la Colección del Museo Aga Khan, Barcelona: Fundación La Caixa, 2009: 74.[2] Welch and Welch,Arts of the Islamic Book, Ithaca: Published for the Asia Society by Cornell University Press, 1982: 146.[3] Junod, Benoît and Ladan, Akbarnia (eds),Los Mundos del Islam en la Colección del Museo Aga Khan, Barcelona: Fundación La Caixa, 2009: 74.Junod, Benoît and Ladan, Akbarnia,Los mundos del Islam en la colección del Museo Aga Khan, Barcelona: Fundacion La Caixa, 2009. ISBN: 9788499000138.Welch, Anthony and Welch, Stuart Cary,Arts of the Islamic Book: The Collection of Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, Ithaca: Published for the Asia Society by Cornell University Press, 1982. ISBN: 9780801415487.

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The Night of Destiny (Young Man of Destiny), a page from the Quintet by Amir Khusraw Dilhui (1253-1325)

(ليلة القدر شاب القدر ،صفحة من الخماسية لأمير خسرو ديلهوي )

Publication Date Approx 1450

Publication Place India, Delhi - Aga Khan Museum

Subject Opaque watercolor and ink on paper

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions 34.8 × 25.2 سم

Library Museum With No Frontiers

Library Asset ID AKM13

Record ID object;EPM;ca;Mus21;14;ar

Library Location Aga Khan Museum

Date Approx 1450

Notes This page shows a portion of five-volume poetry known as the Khamsiya written in Persian between 1298 and 1301 by the prominent Indian poet Amir Khusraw of Delhi. This poet is widely known as Khusraw. He also wrote historical epics and romantic texts and worked under the patronage of the Turkish nobility in India in the late thirteenth century before coming under the patronage of the royal court in Delhi. Khusraw's poetry in The Five is interesting in form and is a collection of five poems composed by Persian poet Nizami (d. 1209) This copy was produced near Delhi in the 15th century and at some point in history its contents became known as “Laylat al-Qadr.” It is the only page in the Aga Khan Museum’s collection that originates from this scattered manuscript.

Sample Text “Laylat al-Qadr (Young Man of Destiny), a page from (The Quintet) by Amir Khusraw Dilhui (1253-1325)” in Explore Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;ca;Mus21;14;ar

Bu sayfanın künyesi MWNF Working Number: CA1 14

Seçili bibliyografya [1] Junod, Benoît and Ladan, Akbarnia (eds),Los Mundos del Islam en la Colección del Museo Aga Khan, Barcelona: Fundación La Caixa, 2009: 74.[2] Welch and Welch,Arts of the Islamic Book, Ithaca: Published for the Asia Society by Cornell University Press, 1982: 146.[3] Junod, Benoît and Ladan, Akbarnia (eds),Los Mundos del Islam en la Colección del Museo Aga Khan, Barcelona: Fundación La Caixa, 2009: 74.Junod, Benoît and Ladan, Akbarnia,Los mundos del Islam en la colección del Museo Aga Khan, Barcelona: Fundacion La Caixa, 2009. ISBN: 9788499000138.Welch, Anthony and Welch, Stuart Cary,Arts of the Islamic Book: The Collection of Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, Ithaca: Published for the Asia Society by Cornell University Press, 1982. ISBN: 9780801415487.