Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c22.52

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MADRASAHS. See Colleges Magicians, 90 Maḥmūd, Sulṭān : Alberuni, relations with, xvii., 13 Curiously rewards ’Unṣurī, 7 Cuts off a woman’s hair, 7 Founds University of Ghaznī, 5 Iconoclast and bigot, xiv., 3 Illiberal treatment of Firdausī, xiv., xvi., 9 Munificence, 4 Pacified by a poem, 11 Patronage of learned men, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 11 Ravages of, in India, 3 Traditions maintained by his son, 12 Ugliness, 4 Zeal for education bequeathed to successors, 11 Maḥmūd Gāwān, patron of letters : A learned and famous minister to Muḥammad Shāh Bahmanī II., 86 Beneficence to literature and learning, 87 Builds a magnificent college at Bīdar, 87 His riches and self-sacrifice, 89 Literary work and poems, 87 Remains of his public works, 87 Victim of ungrateful master, xxiv. Maḥmūd Shāh Bahmanī : Accomplished and a poet, 82