Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c20.32

c20.32

Fāṭimah, ’Āishah, Maryam, etc.,¹ yet it will be observed from the examples we have cited that the education of the Muhammadan princesses of India was not neglected; and sometimes they did show some progress which was indeed creditable, considering the comparative seclusion in which they were placed. These examples must have been followed by the nobility and the higher classes of Muhammadans in India. Hence we are justified in the conclusion that the Muhammadan ladies during the Muhammadan rule could not have been so ignorant as it is generally supposed.