Women and Education

WOMEN AND EDUCATION A study of the life of the Prophet Muhammad tells us that education, whose actual goal from the Islamic point of view is the arousal of human awareness, is as essential for women as it is for men. There is a famous saying of the Prophet that acquiring knowledge is the duty of all Muslims. (Sunan Ibn Majah, Hadith No. 229) Indeed, only men and women who acquire knowledge and are aware can conduct the practical matters of life smoothly. In the biographies of the narrators of Hadith literature, mention is made of the academic services of women, which shows that during the first era of Islam, there was a strong tendency among women to acquire knowledge. Imam Bukhari, who compiled the Hadith book Al-Jami as-Sahih, considered the most authentic source of Hadith, was initially educated at home by his mother and sister. According to the Quran, there is no difference between a man and a woman. They share a common fate and