Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c12.s7.22

c12.s7.22

The *Tazkiratul-’Ulamā* and the *Siyarul-Mulk* as quoted in the *Tazkira* give us interesting details about this university-city, which throw a flood of light not only on the inner life of the learned men and students who lived there, but also on many other points. We learn that from the time of the foundation of the city, people from all districts of Hindustan, specially from the Subahs of Oudh and Ilāhābād, used to flock thereto for education. In the time of Sulṭān Ibrāhīm Sharqī, it was his capital, and here hundreds of madrasahs and masjids lay scattered, and scholars and teachers were granted *altamgahs* and *jāgirs* in order that they might devote themselves to learning in complete freedom from material needs and anxieties.² During Humāyūn’s reign, Jaunpūr continued to enjoy its