Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c10.184

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c10.184

In Delhi at this time lived a large number of learned men, some of whom surpassed, according to Barnī, the most erudite of Bukhārā, Samarqand, Baghdād, Cairo, Damascus, Ispahān or Tabrīz. There were men learned in all the departments of knowledge, such as history (Badī' and Bayān), jurisprudence (Fiqh), logic (Uṣūli-Fiqh), theology (Uṣūli-dīn), grammar (Naḥw), commentaries on the Qur'ān (Tafsīr), etc. Barnī mentions also the following other names of learned men of Delhi :—

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