What is Nasir Khusraw?
{{Infobox saint |name = '''Nasir Khusraw Balkhi'''<br>{{nq|ناصر خسرو بلخی}} |image = |imagesize= |caption= |titles = |birth_date = 1004 |birth_place = [[Greater Khorasan|Khorasan]] (present day [[Tajikistan]]) |death_date = 1088 (aged 84) |death_place = [[Yamgan District|Yamgan]], [[Greater Khorasan|Khorasan]]<br>(present day [[Badakhshan Province|Badakhshan]] in [[Afghanistan]]) |feast_day = |beatified_date= |beatified_place= |beatified_by = |canonized_date= |canonized_place= |canonized_by = |major_shrine = Tomb of Nasir Khusrav [[Yamgan District|Yamgan]], [[Afghanistan]] |attributes = |patronage = |issues = |suppressed_date= |influences = |tradition = [[Sufi]] [[poetry]], [[Ismaili]] scholar |influenced = |major_works = [[Safarnama]], [[:tr:Vech-i Din|Wajh-i-Din]], Zaad al-Musafirin, Sa'datnama, Rawshana-i-nama |quote= }} '''Abu Mo’in Hamid al-Din Nasir ibn Khusraw Qubadiani Marvzi''' ([[1004]]-[[1088]]), also known as '''Nāsir Khusraw Qubādiyānī Balkhi''' or '''Nasir Khusraw Balkhi''' was a [[Persia]]n [[poet]]. He was born in a village near [[Balkh]] in modern [[Afghanistan]]. He knew about [[science]], [[medicine]], [[mathematics]], [[astronomy]] and [[astrology]]. He had studied [[Arabic language|Arabic]], [[Turkish language|Turkish]], [[Greek language|Greek]], [[Hindi]], [[Sindhi language|Sindhi]], [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] and [[Persian language|Persian]]. He wrote the [[Safarnama]]. In Safarnama, Naser Khosrow described his journey to [[Mecca]], [[Cairo]] and [[Jerusalem]] and many other cities. His poems are collected in a [[diwan]]. He died in [[Yamagan]], a village in Afghanistan. {{commons category}} [[Category:1004 births]] [[Category:1088 deaths]] [[Category:Persian poets]] {{bio-stub}}