Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c21.20

c21.20

I should also remark, at the risk of repetition, that Akbar appreciated abstruse controversies and elegances of literary compositions, took part in discussions with learned men, composed poetry, recited odes of Ḥāfiẓ, and was well-read in history. These as well as the learning they imply come as more natural corollaries to his knowledge of the alphabet than to his ignorance thereof. [For the references, see pp. 139-142 of this work.]