Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c10.243

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fond of history, and among the historians who lived at his court were the famous Ziyāuddīn Barnī and Sirāj ’Afīf. After Barnī’s death, the Sulṭān, it is said, expressed to every learned man he met, his great desire for an historical record of the events of his reign. But with the high standard by which he judged an historian, he did not find any one to his liking; and in despair he caused a few lines of his own composition bearing on his reign to be inscribed in letters of gold on the walls, domes and minarets of his two palaces Kūshki-Shikār and Kūshki-Nuzūl at Fīrūzābād.¹