Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c12.s1.38

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was himself a very learned man, a good writer both in prose and verse, and had few equals in his knowledge of mathematics. The *Rauẓatul-Inshā* and some poems from his pen are still to be found in a few libraries of the Deccan. He used to send every year valuable presents to several learned men in Khurāsān and ’Irāq, for which the princes of those countries bestowed honours upon him. Maulānā ’Abdul Raḥmān’s letters to Maḥmūd Gāwān have been incorporated into the volumes of his works, and a poem by the Maulānā was written in praise of the minister. Maḥmūd Gāwān had the honour of having his biography written by Mullā ’Abdul Karīm Sindī.¹