The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c15.32

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The tutor whom Bairam Khān selected was Mīr 'Abdul-Latīf, the Persian, who failed, like his predecessors, to induce Akbar to learn to read, but was the first to teach him the principle of *sulh-i-kull*, or universal toleration, on which Abu-'l-Fazl so frequently descants. He came of a Sayyid family of Qazvīn, persecuted in Persia as Sunnīs, but was so moderate in his religious views as to be suspected, in India, of Shiah proclivities.