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Islam stresses that education for men and women is of equal importance. Islam made education compulsory for both men and women centuries before the western world. For example, in the United States, women were not offered this right until Title IX of the Education Codes of the Higher Education Act Amendment of 1977. Throughout Muslim history, there have been notable Muslim women who excelled in their fields of knowledge. Here are a few: Aisha bint Abi Bakr who narrated over 2,...000 hadith. Rabi'ah Bint Mu'awwad, a great scholar of law in Medina Umm' Atiyyah, who taught male scholars Islamic law. A'isha bint Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas who had many famous male scholars as her students. Fatima al Fihri, the school founder that the Guinness Book of World Records, calls the oldest continuously operating institution of higher education in the world, al-Qarawiyyin University in Fez, Morocco, established in 859. Nana Asma'u's 19th-century education for women makes her name still a popular choice for schools and women's educational organizations in Northern Nigeria. @muslimsforpeaceofficial

Are Muslim women forced to wear a headscarf? No, Islamically speaking, the observation of Hijab is a personal decision and should be free from external societal pressure. Muslim women choose to wear the headscarf as a declaration of faith and devotion to God. The head covering is not a concept that is unique to Islam, but is found in Biblical literature too. The Bible taught the wearing of a veil long before Islam. In the Old Testament, we read: "When Re-bek' ah lifted up he...r eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel. For she had said unto the servant, 'What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us?' And the servant had said 'It is my master' Therefore she took the veil covered herself." [Genesis: 24:64-65] Western countries' pressure on Muslim women to unveil to 'free' themselves results from an inherently sexist desire to police how women dress. For many Muslim women, Hijab is a rejection of these societal norms. Here is a Muslim woman explaining why she wears a hijab.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0te6JWVEws @muslimsforpeaceofficial