Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c10.350

c10.350

Tīmūr, however, was not without some literary traits. During the siege of the town of Lonī, he ordered the houses of the Sayyids, Shaikhs, and learned Musalmāns to be preserved, and this was done,¹—a concession bespeaking the literary vein that ran through his stern Tartar character and also manifested itself in his practice of keeping company with learned men, even in his military expeditions.² He is the reputed author of an autobiography, *Malfūẓāt-i-Tīmūrī*, showing a partiality for writing memoirs, which characterized almost