School for hakımāt

About School for hakımāt

According to Wikipedia, School for hakımāt was a medical school for girls in Abu Zaabal in Egypt, founded in 1832. The school was founded by the French physician Antoine-Barthelemy Clot on the order of Muhammad Ali Pasha. Muhammad Ali Pasha wished for the public to become vaccinated, and had founded a medical school for men in 1827. However, the customary Islamic gender segregation made it impossible for men to perform vaccination on female patients, and therefore there was a need to educate female medical practitioners. However, the customary Islamic gender segregation made it difficult to enroll females in school, so Antoine Barthelemy Clot had to buy 24 Sudanese and Ethiopian girls in the Egyptian slave market to acquire students for his school.