Editing Muhammad bin Tughluq (section)

==Religious policy==
There are conflicting views expressed by historians on his religious tolerance. While visitors Ibn Battuta, Nunez and Firistha mention that Muhammed Bin Tughlaq showed  intolerance to other religions,<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=Sewell|first=Robert|title=A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar)|publisher=Swan Sonnenschen & Co|pages=12–15}}</ref> on the contrary, Peter Jackson mentions that Muhammed was the only Sultan who participated in Hindu festivities.<ref name=":3" /> Ibn Battuta mentions that the king of China (the [[Yuan dynasty|Yuan Emperor]]) had sent an embassy to Muhammad for reconstruction of a sacked temple at [[Sambhal]]. The envoys were however denied with the statement that only those living in a Muslim territory who paid the ''[[jizya]]'' could be permitted to restore a temple. [[Firuz Shah Tughlaq]] had claimed that before his rule, idol-temples had been permitted to be rebuilt contrary to the Sharia.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lt2tqOpVRKgC&pg=PA288|title=The Delhi Sultanate: A Political and Military History|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|author=Peter Jackson|date=2003 |author-link=Peter Jackson (historian)|page= 288|isbn=9780521543293 }}</ref>

The contemporaneous [[Jain]] authorities attests Muhammad cordial relations with the [[Jainism|Jains]] and further showing favour to the Jain scholars.<ref>{{cite book|author=Iqtidar Alam Khan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iGSKTttoa3IC&pg=PR17|title=Historical Dictionary of Medieval India|publisher=Scarecrow Press|year=2008|page=101|quote=Muhammad bin Tughlaq (1325–1351) is mentioned in Jain texts as showing favour to Jain scholars|isbn=9780810864016|access-date=12 August 2022|archive-date=3 July 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703062812/https://books.google.com/books?id=iGSKTttoa3IC&pg=PR17|url-status=live}}</ref>