Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c10.99

c10.99

The next Sulṭān Naṣiruddīn occupies an important place in literary history. He was himself a scholar and during the long period of twenty years that he ruled found ample opportunities for advancing education. Even when a sovereign, he lived the life of a student and a hermit—a trait of character so rare in a king, and was in the habit of purchasing his food with the sale-proceeds of the products of his penmanship.⁵ A copy of the Qur'ān