 | Sir Henry Miers Elliot - India - 1869 - 634 pages
...and unworthy bring an empire to ruin. May God pardon him ! Sultan 1 Raziya, Laughter of the Sultan. Sultan Raziya was a great monarch. She was wise, just,...the qualities befitting a king, but she was not born of the right sex, and so in the estimation of men all these virtues were worthless. (May God have mercy... | |
 | Charles Francis Mackenzie - Tales - 1882 - 322 pages
...but, although Minháju-s-Siráj freely admits that the fair Raziya was " a great monarch/' and that she was wise, just, and generous, a benefactor to her kingdom, a dispenser of justice, the leader of her armies, and endowed with all kingly qualities, he cannot refrain from the ungallant remark,... | |
 | Charles Francis Mackenzie - Tales - 1882 - 310 pages
...Peninsula, but, although Minhaju-s-Siraj freely admits that the fair Raziya was " a great monarch/' and that she was wise, just, and generous, a benefactor to her kingdom, a dispenser of justice, the leader of her armies, and endowed with all kingly qualities, he cannot refrain from the ungallant remark,... | |
 | Marmaduke William Pickthall, Muhammad Asad - Civilization, Islamic - 1927 - 696 pages
...this accomplished Queen speaks of her as " a great monarch, wise, just and generous, a benefactor of her kingdom, a dispenser of justice, the protector...of her subjects and the leader of her armies." She ruled the kingdom for some years with tact and wisdom ; but they were troublous times and required... | |
 | Marmaduke William Pickthall, Muhammad Asad - Civilization, Islamic - 1927 - 696 pages
...this accomplished Queen speaks of her as " a great monarch, wise, just and generous, a benefactor of her kingdom, a dispenser of justice, the protector...of her subjects and the leader of her armies. " She ruled the kingdom for some years with tact and wisdom ; but they were troublous times and required... | |
 | Edward John Thompson - History - 1928 - 90 pages
...she was finally murdered. The annalist gives her a good character, but points out her limitations. "She was endowed with all the qualities befitting a king, but she was not born of the right sex, and so in the estimation of men all these virtues were worthless. (May God have mercy... | |
 | U.S. Goswami - Sex discrimination against women - 1993 - 142 pages
...sex, are equal before the law. PARTI WOMAN IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE Razia, the Turkic Queen of Delhi She was endowed with all the qualities befitting a king, but she was not born of the right sex, and so, in the estimation of men, all these virtues were worthless." That observation... | |
 | Gabrielle Festing - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1912 - 435 pages
...woman." " Sultan Raziya was a great monarch," says the historian who moralised over her brother's fate. " She was wise, just, and generous, a benefactor to...the qualities befitting a king, but she was not born of the right sex, and so in the estimation of men all these virtues were worthless. May God have mercy... | |
 | H. C. Fanshawe - Reference - 1998 - 492 pages
...generous, a benefactor of her kingdom, and dispenser of justice, the protector of her subjects, and a leader of her armies. She was endowed with all the qualities befitting a king, but she was not born of the right sex, and so, in the estimation of men, all these virtues were worthless. May God have... | |
 | Elin Sand - Women heads of state - 2000 - 552 pages
...years and six months and six days. Lament, O heart-reft nightingale, for here is cause for sorrow. Sultan Raziya was a great monarch. She was wise, just, and generous, a benefactor to her sultanate, a dispenser of justice, the protector of her subjects, and the leader of her armies. She... | |
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Sultan Raziya was a great monarch. She was wise, just, and generous, a benefactor to her kingdom, a dispenser of justice, the protector of her subjects, and the leader of her armies. She was endowed with all the qualities befitting a king, but she was... 
