Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c12.s5.2

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literature. During the whole of his long rule for over thirty years, he gave encouragement to learned men, so that Mālwa rose to a great resort of literary men. Many distinguished philosophers and maulānās not only came from other countries to the place but were also turned out by the many colleges that Maḥmūd founded in the different parts of his dominions. Mālwa, according to Ferishta, could bear a fair comparison with Shīrāz or Samarqand in literary excellence.¹