Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c10.228

c10.228

However, as the Sulṭān was of a literary disposition, he was never without a circle of learned men about him; but though the literary men whom he took with him to Daulatābād or who went there of their own accord could never make up for what had been lost, yet it must be admitted that the Royal Court throughout the reign of Sulṭān Muḥammad was marked by a high literary tone. What provisions he made for the education of his subjects in his new city we are not in a position to say; but it is not at all likely that the literary Sulṭān would build his capital without any suitable madrasah as its educational ornament, as Fīrūz Shāh his successor would do in his own Fīrūzābād. However, the early part of his reign will always be remembered for the large influx of