The age at which girls started to be veiled and secluded, twelve to fourteen, was a crucial age for the development of talents and intellect, and veiling and seclusion frustrated that development; girls needed to mix freely with men, for learning came from such mixing | The Imperial and asiatic quarterly review and oriental and colonial record, Oriental Institute Woking, England , East India Association London, England• His mission in France lasted four years |
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He believed that Egyptian women were the backbone of a strong nationalistic people and therefore their roles in society should drastically change to better the Egyptian nation | Qasim's mother was the daughter of Ahmad Bey Khattab a son of a Nephew of 's family |
To answer conservatives who worried about abolition of the veil would have influence on women's purity, Amin replied not from the perspective of gender equality, but from the standpoint to follow the superior Western civilization.
16Study And research" , ed | Amin's argument against seclusion and veiling was simply that girls would forget all they had learned if they were made to veil and observe seclusion after they were educated |
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5 Dec 1995 : 1637-1638 | When women were enslaved in the home, without a voice and without an education, they tended to spend their time wastefully and bring forth children that would grow to be lazy, ignorant, and mistrustful |
these intellects and these souls that we so admire, could possibly fail to know the means of safeguarding woman and preserving her purity? In 1885, he was appointed a jurist in the Mixed Courts.
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