Talk:Nasir Khusraw

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[edit] Merge

I have merged Naser Khosrow into this article by this edit, and added a cleanup-rewrite tag to the page, since I've basically dumped most of the content into here (under 'Alternative version'). Note also, in case there is some confusion regarding the edit history, that my Revision as of 16:12, 2 November 2006 was not a merge (as mentioned in the edit summary), but a merge suggestion. The actual merge was done by the next revision, on November 4. --Bluerain ^talk 17:22, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Not a Sunni

I don't personally want to go through a fix this article, since its structured quite strangely and would require major revision. But one very important fact that should not be missed is that, unlike it states in the second section in this article, there is fairly no evidence to suggest that Khusraw was ever a Sunni; he was born into a Shii family and explicitly espoused Ismaili Shiism in his later writings. It is very common for Sunni historians to try and appropriate figures like Khusraw (or at least partially appropriate them) so one should be very wary of what sources one is using. But even a cursory look at an encyclopedia of Islam (or even encyclopedia britanica for that matter) would let you know that Khusraw was, by all major evidence, a Shii. - Ajay Chaudhary (Department of Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University)