Cairo’s al-Azhar university refused self-taught women religious scholars admission.

Evidence

When she tried to enroll in the University of al..Azhar, she, like many of the d�t I worked with, was refu admission because she had no prior training in religious sciences. — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 587

Categorization

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