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Question
Answer the following question in one or two words/ sentences :
Give any one example to show that Mahmud was a patron of learning.
Solution
He was a patron of art and learning and enjoyed the company of learned scholars and poets. The Persian poet Firdausi, an author of the great epic Shahnama, and the great Persian historian and mathematician A1 Beruni, were among the eminent scholars patronized by Mahmud.
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