Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c17.119

c17.119

Emperor Akbar paid very great attention to the education of his sons and grandsons, and appointed learned men of very high reputation to superintend their studies. Quṭbuddīn Khān and ’Abdul-Raḥīm Mīrzā were Salīm’s tutors; Faiẓī and Sharīf Khān, Murād’s; and Sayyid Khān Chāghtā’ī, Dāniyāl’s; Murād received instruction in Christian doctrine, and read the New Testament with some of the Jesuit Fathers. The Emperor placed one of his grandsons under the tuition of Abul Faẓl and a Brāhmaṇa.¹