Muslim Rule took Education to the Masses

instance, the coming of the age of human equality, the ending of the age of superstition, the establishment of justice, the dissemination of education among all classes, etc. Although—as is under the general law of nature—Muslim rule was not entirely free of shortcomings; it introduced a new age of development into human history. The most far-reaching initiative of Muslim rule was that it took education to a mass level for the first time in human history. Before Islam, education was very limited, and people were generally illiterate. The study of books meant only reading religious texts (often without understanding them) for the blessing this would confer or the perusal of royal biographies.