Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c12.s7.1

c12.s7.1

While Khāndīsh was being thus raised to a high position in the literary world, Jaunpūr was becoming at the same time a great seat of learning under its famous king Ibrāhīm Sharqī.³ About this time under the Sayyids, Western Hindustan was passing through an era of confusion and anarchy. It is therefore gratifying to notice that Jaunpūr reared its head as a tower of light, shedding its lustre far and wide in spite of the successive waves of tumult and disorder that threatened to engulf it every moment. It was here that Farīd, afterwards called Shīr Shāh, received his education at one of its colleges about a century later, when Jaunpūr continued to be an educational centre. Farīd in a letter