Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c10.354

c10.354

The *Memoirs* gives us a description of Tīmūr’s education in his infancy. When he attained his seventh year, his father took him by the hand and led him to a school, where he was placed under the charge of a tutor named Mullā ’Alī Beg. The Mullā wrote the Arabic alphabet on a plank and placed it before the infant Tīmūr, who considered the copying of it as an amusement. In his ninth year, Tīmūr was taught the daily service of the mosque.¹