Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c12.s10.34

c12.s10.34

he spent some time in copying the *Qur'ān*, so that every year he sent *Qur'āns* of his own writing with valuable offerings to Mecca, Medina and other holy places. "He maintained above two thousand readers, bards and chanters, who were constantly employed in reading the *Qur'ān* and in other acts of devotion."¹