Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c17.71

c17.71

When Faizī² died, he left a library containing 4600 volumes, some of which were exquisitely copied with extravagant care and expense. Most of them were autographs of their respective authors or were at least copied by their contemporaries. They were all removed to the King's Library, and catalogued and numbered in three different sections. The first section included poetry, medicine, astrology and music; the second, philology, philosophy, Ṣūfīism, astronomy and geometry; and the third, commentaries, traditions, theology and law. There were 101 copies of the poem *Nal-Daman* in Faizī's collection.³