Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c12.s4.1

c12.s4.1

In the royal dynasty of Gulkandah, the name of Muḥammad Qulī Quṭb Shāh stands high for his encouragement of education. In the middle of Ḥaidarābād, he built an elegant masjid and the *Chahār Minār*—the latter structure being a quadrangle with four arcades, each arch occupying the whole space between the minarets at its corners. Over the middle, there is a dome under which a fountain plays with its jets of clear water. Each minaret about 220 feet in height contains apartments for the use of the professors and students of the college there. It is one of the most splendid buildings in the city, and a brilliant specimen of Saracenic architecture. This college was seen by Thevenot the traveller, who visited India about 1666 A.D., and has admired it in his