Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c10.85

c10.85

The next king Altamash with his political preoccupations does not seem to have given much thought to the encouragement of learning. There are, however, proofs that he was liberal³ and that Delhi continued to be the resort of learned men. There sought refuge the most learned Persian poet and philosopher of his age, Amīr Kūḥānī,⁴ who fled from Bukhārā when it was sacked by Changīz Khān to the court of Delhi, which was sufficiently attractive to draw him thither for asylum and protection; and during his stay there, he wrote a great many poems. Again, Naṣīruddīn, the author of the popular collection of historical anecdotes in Persian, lived at the Sulṭān’s court,