Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c17.117

c17.117

Akbar gave great encouragement to good penmanship, particularly to the Nasta'līq hand. Before the invention of printing, clear and neat handwriting was a necessity; and this was the principal reason why so much stress was laid upon this art. The most excellent penmen attached to Akbar's Court were— Muḥammad Ḥusain Kashmīrī Zarrīnqalam, Mullā Mīr 'Alī, and his son, Maulānā Bāqir, Muḥammad Amīn Mashhadī, Mīr Ḥusainī Kulankī, Maulānā 'Abdulḥayy, Maulānā Daurī, Maulānā 'Abdul-Raḥīm, Mīr 'Abdullāh, Niẓāmī Qazwīnī, 'Alī Chaman Kashmīrī, Nūrullah Qāsim Arslān.¹