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To this day, women’s access to education still faces substantial stumbling blocks as two-thirds of the world’s illiterates are women from rural areas. In the Middle East and Muslim majority countries, concentrated efforts in the last two decades have improved women’s educational opportunities, yet the gap between the genders remains daunting. This chapter will focus on women’s education in Egypt to explore the links between levels of education, poverty, and social development. The emerging efforts of women’s Islamic organizations to spread education and vocational training in rural areas of the country will receive a special focus. The chapter aims to examine the outcome of an “Islamic education” on the sociopolitical life in the country. This will shed light on some aspects of education overlooked by international development organizations that deal with issues of illiteracy.
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Hafez, S. (2018). Women and Education in Muslim Context. In: Daun, H., Arjmand, R. (eds) Handbook of Islamic Education. International Handbooks of Religion and Education, vol 7. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64683-1_14
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