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him in 1304. It is said that it was his wife’s
persuasion which brought about his conversion.
Indeed, most of the Tartar chiefs and military men
converted in the same way. Indeed, their Muslim
wives and mothers so impressed upon their minds
the greatness of Islam, that the whole course of
Islamic history was thereby changed.
The influence of Muslim women is in no way
diminished for its being in the more mundane
settings of the modern world, for although,
physically, they remain within the domestic
sphere, mentally they go with their husbands
wherever life’s exigencies may take them. In so
doing, they share both their hearts and their
minds. The relationship of every wife to her
husband is of great depth: it is she who is his
chief adviser and sharer in his joys and sorrows.
Thus she is associated at every moment with all
his thinking, all his activities. Where the
household tasks are concerned, her involvement
is direct: so far as external tasks are concerned,
she exercises over them a kind of benevolent
remote control.
