Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c10.101

c10.101

transcribed by this sovereign with great taste and elegance was shown by Qāẓī Kamāluddīn to Ibn Baṭūṭah when he visited India about a century after.¹ A scholar as he was, he respected and encouraged scholarship. He rose to be a great patron of Persian literature, and the celebrated *Ṭabaqāt-i-Nāṣirī*, which is so much drawn upon by historians for information regarding India and Persia, was written at his Court and took its name from the Sulṭān.