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farer since the labours of Henry Elliott, and later the Asiatic Society of Bengal, making these sources available to students in printed form, the practice, and one might say the fashion, has been to lay as many of these sources as possible under contribution, accept the information more or less on its face value and generally to produce a factual rather than a critical study of the period or personality.
" He was extremely intolerant of free-thinkers and unorthodox Muslims, and devotes a goodly portion of the work urging the king to exterminate " the infidel philos• ophers," as he calls them, " who prefer scientific reasoning to tradition," and whom he, on that account, regards as enemies of the religion of God and antagonists of Mu}:iammad.
"3 His attitude towards non-Muslims will be clear from the following extracts :- ( 1) " How can the True Religion become dominant over the others when the Kings of Islam, with all their might and Islamic grandeur, permit (the infidels), in the capital and Mussalman cities, tc: worship idols openly, to continue the usages of their false religion without fear or hesitation, to hold festivities with singing and· drum-beating, and, in return for the payment of a few tankas paid as Jaziya, to perpetuate all such idolatrous practices, including even the study of their false Scriptures ?.
There are casual and extremely illuminating references in these works to contemporary events, personalities and social life, and since their authors had no interest in recording them except to draw morals of a spiritual nature, they are remarkably free from such defects as we have discussed above.