تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.64.8

13.64.8

The women of this city and of all these coastal lands do not wear sewn clothing; they wear only unsewn cloths, one of them girding herself with one end of the cloth and putting the rest over her head and breast. They are beautiful and chaste, and each puts a gold ring in her nose. One of their peculiarities is that they all know the mighty Qurʾān by heart. In the city I saw thirteen schools for teaching girls and twenty-three for teaching boys, and I have not seen that anywhere else.