Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c3.15

c3.15

But Mr. Law need not have doubted Akbar’s illiteracy, for the East teems with instances of distinguished administrators who could neither read nor write. For example, we have the Prophet Muḥammad, who was known as the unlessoned prophet, and we have ’Alāu-d-dīn Khiljī, and Ḥaidar ’Alī. The view that ’Alāu-d-dīn and Akbar