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School for hakımāt

Abu Zaabal, Egypt · built 1832

School for hakımāt was a medical school for girls in Abu Zaabal in Egypt, founded in 1832. It gave women a medical training to enable them to give medical care for women patients in a Muslim society with gender segregation. It was a pioneer school for the educational history for women in Egypt.

School data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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