 Minhaj states that Iltutmish's patronage attracted several scholars and other prominent people to Delhi, especially from Persia, which had fallen to the Mongols.Iltutmish's court to have had raised seats for distinguished scholars and saints, as opposed to lower seats for others.This is suggested by "Fawa'id-ul-Fu'ad", a near-contemporary work, which describes a quarrel between Shaikh Nizamuddin Abul Muwayyid and Sayyid Nuruddin Mubarak Ghaznavi over choice of seats in Iltutmish's presence.