Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c22.81

c22.81

Sikandar Lūdī, Sulṭān—continued. Founds a college at Narwār, 74 Makes verses under a pen-name, 73 Midnight repasts of, 76-77 Pioneer of literary education of military men, 73-74 Turns Hindu temples into Muslim colleges, 74 Singers, famous, 31, 155, 156, 178, 183 Sivaliks, fossils of, xxiii. Siyālkūṭ (Sealkot), famous seat of learning and of the paper manufacture, 189-190 Slave Dynasty (Quṭbuddīn, a slave, and his successors), 19-29 Slaves educated by Sulṭāns, 18, 54 State encouragement of learning : Edict of Fīrūz Shāh Tughlaq, 56 Emperor’s literary tastes reflected by his court and serving as a barometer of the literary atmosphere, xlvi.-xlvii. Exception proving this rule, xlvii. Importance of observing the literary tastes, etc., of Muhammadan rulers, xlviii. Story-tellers (Qiṣṣāḥgus), 24, 54, 90 Subjects taught : At Fīrūz-Shāhi-Madrasah, 62 Nishāpūr, 19 By a 14th-century tutor, 81 (note) In Akbar’s time, 161-162 Ṣūfīism, 152, 185 Ṣūfīs, 62, 144, 185 Sunnīs, 145