Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c12.s1.59

c12.s1.59

no doubt that high civilization according to the standard of Muhammadanism existed. . . . Education in Persian and Arabic literature was extended as much as possible by village schools, which were attached to mosques and endowed with lands sufficient for their maintenance. . . . The system tended as well to the spread of literature as of the faith of the ruling power, and its effects are still distinctly traceable throughout the wide extent of their dominion.” ¹