Growth of Muslim Population in Medieval India, A.D. 1000–1800 c16.s2.9

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Contemporary sources, however, do not supply any figures of the converted in this way. But the number of converts was perhaps not small. Ibn Battuta's assertion that Qutbuddin Mubarak Shah's system of proselytization provided a convenient handle to his enemies to murder him by introducing into the palace a large number of Hindus declaring them to be potential converts, shows that Qutbuddin was accustomed to converting large numbers.⁵⁵