Anjuman-i-Himayat-i-Islam 3749527 91022648 2006-11-29T23:14:33Z SmackBot 433328 Date the maintenance tags using [[WP:AWB|AWB]] {{unreferenced|date=October 2006}} '''Anjuman-i-Himayat-i-Islam''' (‘Association for the Service of Islam’), launched in [[Lahore]] in 1884. One of its major efforts was the setting up of a number of schools for [[Muslim]] girls and orphanages in the [[Punjab region|Punjab]], where girls were taught Urdu and the Qur’an, as well as mathematics, needlework and crafts. It started a publishing house for appropriate textbooks for Muslim girls’ and boys’ schools, and these were used all over the Punjab and beyond. In 1939 it set up the Islamia College for Women in Lahore, the only one of its kind in the region, whose curriculum was the standard Bachelor of Arts supplemented by Islamic education. It also set up [[Islamia College Lahore]] in 1892. The Anjuman-i-Himayat-i-Islam was a more middle class body that represented a spontaneous desire on the part of middle-class [[Muslims]] of [[Lahore]] to cooperate with each other for common good. The Anjuman also played a vital role to provide a political platform for Indian Muslims. [[Category:Organisations based in Pakistan]] {{Pakistan-stub}}