Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c10.287

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¹ Ferishta vol. i, p. 465. It is not supported by N.K.T. See also *Ṭabaqāt-i-Akbarī* by Niẓāmuddīn Aḥmad, MS. in ASB, p. 243. Accounts vary as to the exact number of colleges built by Fīrūz. The *Ma’āṣiri-Raḥīmī* by ’Abdul Bāqī (MS. in ASB, leaf 107) states that he built 50 Madrasahs ; the *Khulāṣatul-Tawārīkh* (MS. in ASB, leaf 165) by Sūjan Rāi Khattrī gives the number as 30. According to *Jāmi’ul-Tawārīkh* by Faqīr Muḥammad (p. 310), the number is 40, while the *Ṭabaqāt-i-Akbarī* and Ferishta state it as 30. E. Thomas, the author of the *Chronicles of the Paṭhān Kings of Delhi* (p. 291), mistrusts the totals given by the last two works. In the midst of this confusion, it is very difficult to find out the truth.