Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c16.15

c16.15

Shīr Shāh’s son had also love of learning. He could compose extempore verses. Two learned men with whom he used to mix often were Shaikh ’Abdul Ḥasan Kambū and Shaikh ’Abdullāh Sulṭānpurī Maqdūm-ul-Mulk.² Shaikh ’Alā’ī was a very learned man of the time. He acted as if, as Badā’ūnī says, his motto were—