Female labor force in the Muslim world large interval across predominantly Muslim nations. However, across most majority Muslim nations, there is a sharp convergence on female employers. With the exception of Turkey, hardly any women are employers in many majority Muslim nations. In Turkey, 48% of female workers are employers. This statistic suggests that Turkish women hire at least one additional worker for their self-employed commercial enterprises considering that self-employment is the most common form of employment among this demographic group. The second largest percentage of female employers as a percentage of female workers is 3% in Egypt. In Indonesia where 68% of women are self-employed and
Growth of Muslim Population in Medieval India School of Oriental and African Studies", Digby stated that estimate lacks accurate data in pre-census times. Marxist historian Irfan Habib criticized the book in his "Economic History of the Delhi Sultanate"(1978). K. S. Lal wrote a reply to Irfan Habib's criticism in 1979 in his book "Bias in Indian Historiography" (1979) and "Theory and Practice of Muslim State in India" (1999). Koenraad Elst, a Hindutva sympathizer, referred to Lal's statistics in his book "Negationism in India", remarking that "More research is needed before we can settle for a quantitatively accurate evaluation of Muslim rule in India, but at least we