“A man can bear anything but the mention of his wives.”
“Women are the whips of Satan.”
“Trust neither a king, a horse, nor a woman.”
“Our mother forbids us to err and runs into error.”
“What has a woman to do with the councils of a nation?”
“Obedience to a woman will have to be repented of.”
II.—The Teaching of the Qurʾān.
It has often been asserted by European writers that the Qurʾān teaches that women have no souls. Such, however, is not the case. What that book does teach on the subject of women will be gathered from the following selections:—
“Verily the resigned men and the resigned women,