Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c17.137

c17.137

It should be remarked that the colleges in Delhi were not all residential. The learned scholar Shaikh 'Abdul Ḥaqq, who at twenty years of age mastered most of the customary branches of knowledge and learnt the whole of the Qur'ān by heart,⁴ informs us that he used to go twice a day to a college in Delhi, morning and evening, during the heat of one season and the cold of another, returning to his own house for his meal only for a short time. His lodging was two miles away from the college, and