Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c10.174

c10.174

I shall name a few poets, most of whom, according to Ferishta, were recipients of pensions from the Court. These were Amīr Khusrau, the prince of poets, our old acquaintance through several reigns, Amīr Ḥasan, called the Sa’dī of Hindustan, Ṣadruddīn ’Alī, Fakhruddīn Khawāṣ, Ḥamīduddīn Rājah, Maulānā ’Ārif, ’Abdul Ḥakīm, Shahābuddīn Ṣadr Nashīn, and several historians and compilers of memoirs of the times.¹