Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c10.359

c10.359

An amusing story is related of Tīmūr, that he used to station the many learned men that accompanied him in his military expeditions behind the ladies in times of danger, for Tīmūr’s opinion about the courage of literary men was not very complimentary to them.—Blochmann’s *Ā’īni-Akbarī*, vol. i, p. 586, quoting *Badā’ūnī*, ii, p. 211, and iii, 312.