Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c15.s1.6

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of a collection of Turkī poems, many of which are quoted in his *Memoirs*. Abul Faẓl speaks of a Persian *Maṣnawī* of his composition, which had a large circulation. He was also the author of a work on prosody and a few other smaller books. But the greatest of all his works is his *Memoirs*,¹ written in the Turkish language.² He also transposed into poetry the work of Khwājah Aḥrār. He was an adept both in prose and verse, and his skill in music on which he wrote a treatise was also of a high order.³ Mīrzā Muḥammad Ḥaidar, the author of the *Tārīkhi-Rashīdī*, says—