• Fatawa-i-Alamgiri or digests of the Islamic law was prepared in Persian with the help of the Indian scholars. The most well-known of these were prepared in the reign of Firuz Tughlaq.

• But, Arabic digests continued to be prepared, the most famous of these being the Fatawa-i-Alamgiri, or the Digest of Laws, prepared by a group of jurists in the reign of Aurangzeb.

• With the arrival of the Turks in India during the tenth century, a new language, Persian, was introduced in the country. There was a resurgence of the Persian language in Iran and Central Asia from the tenth century onwards and some of the greatest poets of the Persian language, such as Firdausi and Sadi, lived and composed their works between the tenth and the fourteenth centuries.

• Zia Nakhshabi (d. 1350) was the first to translate into Persian Sanskrit, stories which were related by a parrot to a woman, whose husband had gone on a journey.

• This book, Tuti Nama (Book of the Parrot), written in the time of Muhammad Tughlaq, proved very popular and was translated from Persian into Turkish and into many European languages as well. He also translated the old Indian treatise on sexology, the Kok Shastra, into Persian.