Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c10.54

c10.54

The next Sulṭāns who came successively after Masʿūd to sit on the throne of Ghaznī were not noted for their literary zeal. Ferishta on the authority of the Jāmiʿul-Ḥikāyāt informs us that Sulṭān Ibrāhīm who came after them was of a religious disposition and used to hear lectures regularly on his favourite subjects of religion and morality from Imām Yūsuf Sajāwandī; and on such occasions, he showed, in a remarkable degree, patience and resignation with which he used to bear the reproofs of his moral tutor. He was not certainly *a sovereign* in the eye of the guardian of his moral self, and both the pupil and the preceptor acted accordingly.