Woman Between Islam and Western Society
1. A Survey
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could a man be put inside a locked room for years
without anyone having to worry about him.
During the time of the former President of Egypt,
Jamal Abdun Nasir, an ancient statue of Abu
Simbel, 20 meters high and firmly fixed in the rocks,
had to be removed from its place to make way for
the construction of a huge dam. This work,
undertaken between 1964 and 1966, necessitated the
use of special machines which could cut the statue
into several pieces so that they could be shifted to a
safer place, and then reassembled. Now, on this
parallel, the student who views man as a statue, can
also, as part of some scheme, start chopping up the
human body.
Of course, there is no sculptor in this world who
would do such a thing. But in another department,
that of education, such experts have come into
being in modern times as are experimenting with
man as if he were a statue, and doing everything to
him that could be done to a statue. This branch of
knowledge is called “anthropology.” This field of
study began at the turn of the 19th century. In the
light of data collected on external information
