Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c10.210

c10.210

This Sulṭān was, in the early part of his reign, a great friend of learned men. He was one of the most erudite sovereigns that ever sat upon the throne of Delhi. He was an accomplished writer and somewhat of a poet too.² We are told that in the ease of his composition, the play of his fancy and the sublimity of his style, he left the most accomplished teachers and professors far behind. He was an adept in the use of metaphors. He knew by heart a good deal of Persian poetry. In his epistles, which were in both Arabic and Persian,