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One of the most important rights granted to women by Islam is the right to education. To start to examine this issue, we should ask some questions. What is the position of Islam in relation to education in general and women’s education in particular? What are their opportunities in relation to employment? Finally, what is the position of women in the contemporary period in the light of the authentic approach to these issues, as expressed both in the philosophy and in the practices of early Islam?
Some of the material in this chapter has been previously published in Haifaa A. Jawad, The Education of Women in Islam, Gulf Center for Strategic Studies, London, 1991, reproduced by kind permission of the publisher.
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Jawad, H.A. (1998). Islam and Women’s Education. In: The Rights of Women in Islam. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230503311_2
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