Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c17.175

c17.175

'Abdul Raḥīm, the son of Bairām Khān, was a great patron of letters. He could write volubly Persian, Turkish, Arabic and Hindī. He was a poet too, and as such, known as Raḥīm. He presented to Akbar a Persian translation of the *Memoirs of Bābar* in 1590.¹ Bairām was educated at Balkh, a centre of Persian scholarship.² Before his arrival in India, he had opened tutorial relations with Maulānā Zainuddīn Maḥmūd Kāmāngarh, finishing *Yūsuf and Zulaikhā*, and other books under his tuition.³