Explanation: The Delhi Sultans patronised learning and literature. Many of them had great love for Arabic and Persian literature.

• Learned men came from Persia and Persian language got encouragement from the rulers.
• Besides theology and poetry, the writing of history was also encouraged. Some of the Sultans had their own court historians.
• The most famous historians of this period were Hasan Nizami, Minhaj-us-Siraj, Ziauddin Barani, and Shams Siraj Afif.
• Barani’s Tarikh-i-Firoz Shahi contains the history of Tughlaq dynasty. Minhaj-us- Siraj wrote Tabaqat-i-Nasari, a general history of Muslim dynasties up to c.1260 CE.

Source: Tamil Nadu NCERT