Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c10.356

c10.356

Tīmūr was thus far unlike his ancestor Changīz Khān, who scattered the *Qur’āns* found in the Jāmi’ Masjid at Bukhārā and used the chests that contained them as troughs for his horses, compelling the scholars, Sayyids and priests to serve him as grooms by taking charge of the quadrupeds.²