This paper considers the migration of Muslim literati between Central and South Asia across the 12th and 13th centuries. Travel and transmission of knowledge was intensified through the expansion of Ghaznavid (10th-12th centuries), Ghurid (12th-13th centuries) and Delhi Sultanate (13th-14th centuries) imperial realms that unified diverse geographical regions through trade, intercommunal marriage, military alliances and conquest. Imperial expansion created new social and cultural networks that supported intellectual exchange, translation and knowledge production through court patronage. This paper explores the scholarly travels of the ulema, Sufi shaykhs, pilgrims, emissaries and envoys who traversed Central and South Asia and the effects of the sharing and communication of knowledge in different courts and contexts. I will consider how intellectual and literary networks were created, maintained and disrupted, particularly in light of Mongol conquests, over two centuries. The goal is to understand the extent of travel, the exchange of ideas and diverse scholarly worlds in the cosmopolitanism of this period.