Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c7.s1.21

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c7.s1.21

⁴ Compare, ibid., K.R., I, 121, how ladies of Shiraz met thrice a week to listen to the preacher in the principal mosque. Ibn Batuta thinks he never saw a greater assembly of women; compare Bretschneider, II, 287-8 for the women of Herat who observed Pardah but were otherwise free. Similar estimate of Ibn Batuta about women in Medina and in other places.

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