(3) Amir Khusro was a Sufi musician, poet and scholar from the Indian subcontinent. He was an iconic figure in the cultural history of the Indian subcontinent. He was a mystic and a spiritual disciple of Nizamuddin Auliya of Delhi. Amir Khusro was an iconic personality and saint in India, who not only introduced the Qawwali, but also invented popular Indian musical instruments like Sitar and Tabla.