Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c10.207

c10.207

“After the close of ’Alā’s reign, the high standard of wisdom and erudition began to sink to an inferior level, and literature assumed quite another complexion; for although Sulṭān Muḥammad Tughlaq appreciated all sorts of learning, yet there was not such a number of learned men flourishing in his time as had congregated together under ’Alāuddīn’s rule.”¹