Promotion Of Learning In Kashmir Under Sultan Hasan Shah

According to the contemporary analyst, Crivara, Gul Khatun, the mother of the Sultan Hasan Shah, built a madrasa. The Sultan himself constructed a Khangah. The Madrasa-i-Dar-ush-Shifa was also founded by him. The Shaikh-ul-Islam of the day and the Pir or the spiritual guide of the Sultan, Baba Isma’il Kubravi, the great-grandson of Abu’l Mashaikh Shaikh Sulaiman of whom we have spoken in connexion with Shah Hamadan’s Madrasatul-Qur’an, presided over it. This madrasa stood on the Dal at the Pakhribal on the eastern spur of the Hari-Parbat and consisted of 360 snug cubicles. The revenues of the Baghat-i-Malkha lying between Nauhatta and the Dal in Srinagar and of the village Benhama in Lar, in the Sind valley above Gandarbal, were assigned to it. Akbar used this same building as the Jharoka-i-Shahi for emperor’s darshan or appearance to the public. Today the visitor will find here the temple of Pandit Har Kaul, a merchant of Srinagar. Shah Begam, the wife of Malik Ahmad, the prime minister, set up a school. Nauruz, her son, likewise built a madrasa for religious instruction. Malik Taj Bat followed their example. Hayat Khatun (of the Baihaqi Sayyid Family) the queen of Hasan Shah, repaired old buildings dedicated to learning.

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