Marriage
In 1894, Amin married the daughter of a Turkish Administer by the name of Ibrahim Pasha Khitab, joining him to an Egyptian aristocratic family. His wife was raised by a British nanny. Therefore, he felt it was necessary for his daughters to be raised by a British nanny as well. Amin’s advocacy of resisting women’s wearing of the niqab was said to have to have perpetuated within his own family. A daughter, Fahima, upon visiting her uncle in a frock and hat, was said to have caused the uncle to buy his niece a niqab. Upon returning home, Amin, was said to have taken off the niqab and given it away. Although, he could not change his wife from her wearing of it, his plan was to teach the younger generation of females, like his daughter, to not wear of it again.
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Famous quotes containing the word marriage:
“It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession; with totally differing aims the method is the same on both sides.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
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“Every relationship that does not raise us up pulls us down, and vice versa; this is why men usually sink down somewhat when they take wives while women are usually somewhat raised up. Overly spiritual men require marriage every bit as much as they resist it as bitter medicine.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)