Twilight of the Sultanate c16.3

c16.3

But in the social and cultural sphere this period of a century and a quarter was of sustained progress and great achievements. It saw the development of new patterns in architecture. Many works of merit were produced in classical as well as regional languages. Many reformers and poets gave a new tone to society by their teachings and writings. The fifteenth century was thus a century of cultural advancement, of new trends in social behaviour and, above all, an age of socio-religious reforms. We will now turn to review the social and cultural achievements of the period under study.