Women in Middle Eastern History: Shifting Boundaries in Sex and Gender
Format: kindle
ASIN: B00B4NLXLW
Publish date: October 1st 2008
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pages no: 358
Edition language: English
"Women and Education in the Mamluk Period" by Jonathan P. Berkey>/b>Women participated in the Madrasa system of education in two ways. As benefactors, women often supplied the endowments necessary to establish and maintain madrasas. Women could also function as supervisors of madrasas if they inheri...