Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c10.68

c10.68

dominions; but it should be remembered that these efforts were all marked by a religious exclusiveness which looked to the progress of the Muslim subjects alone. While he was at Ajmere, Muḥammad Ghūrī, it is related by Ḥasan Niẓāmī,¹ “destroyed the pillars and foundations of the idol temples and built in their stead mosques and colleges, and the precepts of Islām and the customs of the Law were divulged and established.”