Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c18.s3.21

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received his education at an early age. His first teacher was Sa’dullah Khān, who afterwards became one of the ministers of Shāh Jahān. Another teacher of his was Mīr Muḥammad Hashim. The Prince had a keen intelligence and learnt quickly what he read. He got by heart the Qur’ān and the Ḥadīṣ, could read and write Arabic and Persian with great facility, and had a mastery over Chāghtā’ī Turkī, the language of his remote ancestors. He had a proclivity for theological works, such as the commentaries on the Qur’ān, the Ḥadīṣ, Islāmic Law, Imām Muḥammad Ghazzālī’s works, etc. This early taste for theological writings made him an orthodox of the orthodox Muhammadans and gave him a Puritanic taste, which made him despise painting, music,¹ and poetry in general except that which contained a moral,² which also accounts for his hatred for everything Non-Islāmic in character.