Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c15.s2.8

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c15.s2.8

Mr. L. F. Smith saw this ceremony in 1801 among the Muhammadans in N.W.P., and in a letter, gives the following details of the same:— "When the boy is four years, four months, four days old, for him a silver slate is made, and they write on it the Sūrahi-Iqra', a chapter of the *Qur'ān*, and make him repeat it; at this time, a master is kept for him."⁴

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