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“Mutribi” (musician) was the pen name of a poet-scholar from Samarqand who visited the Mughal court in the last year of the emperor Jahangir’s reign (1605–1626). He recorded his conversations with the emperor. This is the account of the tenth meeting between the two.
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Abdul Ghani Mirzoyef, ed., Khatirtat-i Mutribi by Mutribi Samarqandi, (Karachi: Institute of Central and West Asian Studies, University of Karachi, 1977), 39–40.
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Kidwai, S. (2000). “Mutribi” Samarqandi: The Fair and the Dark Boys (Persian). In: Vanita, R., Kidwai, S. (eds) Same-Sex Love in India. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-05480-7_18
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