Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c10.67

c10.67

The real founder, however, of Ghūrī greatness was Muḥammad Ghūrī, better known for his conquests which surpassed those of Sulṭān Maḥmūd than for his devotion to letters. In the interim of more than half a century, we have a period of chronic war and unrest, and so far as literary matters are concerned, it might be called a very dark epoch. But as unrest was gradually settling down, we find Muḥammad turning his thoughts towards the literary progress of his