Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c10.323

c10.323

Both the students and the professors had to reside within the college, and so there were the facilities that a constant communion among the students themselves as well as between the tutors and the taught could afford. The college was not, as can already be anticipated, a place for exclusively secular studies only, but in it was also carefully looked after the spiritual well-being of the students. There was a big masjid attached thereto, in which the five compulsory as well as the extra prayers were regularly said, the former being performed in gatherings conducted by the Ṣūfīs, who at other times remained engaged in counting beads and praying for the well-being of the Sulṭān. The