ملخص الجهاز:
Kitdb ul-AihJni (Vol. I, page 1815) reports that lbn Muhriz, the son of an Iranian captive, combined Arab and Iranian melodies, and fixed and settled the rules.
~ The son and successor of Iltutmish, namely Ruknuddin Flruz, was a great lover of music3 and his durbar became a centre of celebrated musicians and dancers of both sexes.
6 It was during the reign of this Sultan that Amir Khusrau, the great poet and musician of Medieval India, came into prominence.
With the accession of Muhammad bin-Tughla~ a sovereign learned enough to interpret Muslim laws himself, a musical entertainment composed of both males and females is said to have been instituted for the .
2 Cultured jehanglr continued the patronage of music, and musicians received liberal gifts and rewards on all ceremonial occasions, when their display of skill added life to festivities," Shah [ehan, though he pretended to some amount of orthodoxy and tried to reform some of the irreligious ways in court-life, left music undisturbed.
The King was not hostile to music till the fourth year of his reign, because we find evidence of musicians taking part till then in court festivities and ceremonies.
2 In the reign of Muhammad Shah Bahmani ( whom Firishta wrongly calls Mahmud Shah) three hundred celebrated musicians well known for their singing the poems of Amir Khusrau and Mir Hasan, visited Ahsanabad, and received generous patronage from the Sultan.