. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. ate that out of over a millionof Moslem children between the ages of ten andfourteen, less than sixty-eight thousand canread, and of these but three thousand are girls!Probably in our North African field a similarcount would show femininity intellectually verymuch more to the bad. Mohammedan reason-ing apropos to the education of girls has everfollowed and still follows closely the attitudetaken upon the subject by Mohammed and allstandard Islamic authors. By giving more orless specific instructions as to the education
. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. ate that out of over a millionof Moslem children between the ages of ten andfourteen, less than sixty-eight thousand canread, and of these but three thousand are girls!Probably in our North African field a similarcount would show femininity intellectually verymuch more to the bad. Mohammedan reason-ing apropos to the education of girls has everfollowed and still follows closely the attitudetaken upon the subject by Mohammed and allstandard Islamic authors. By giving more orless specific instructions as to the education ofboys, and in the same connection absolutelyignoring girls, the door of intellectual develop-ment has been slammed hi the face of the fe-male population of the world of Islam. TheProphets one deliverance in regard to girls \was: Do not let them frequent the roofs,a temporary escape from seclusion! Do notteach them the art of writing, which wouldbe likely to set their minds a-working! Teachthem spinning, continues this arch-enslaverof women, and the chapter of the Koran. Ufa
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