Abstract
This paper aims to examine Islamic education classes for Muslim married women founded by the reformist Islamic movement, Jamā'tul
Keywords: MuslimwomeneducationIzālahmovementkaduna
Introduction
Kaduna State is in north-central Nigeria, where the traditional emirates of Zaria and Jama'a towns are located. The state was created as one of the 12 states that replaced the then existing four regions of Nigeria by the Yakubu Gowan regime in 1967. Kaduna was considerably reduced in size when its northern half became Katsina state in 1987.
Springing out of this Islamic awareness at a much later time, was the introduction of an Islamic movement called
Establishing Islāmiyyah school in Metropolis of Zaria
Owing toward the early agitation of
Therefore, some of these young children's classes developed out of informal classrooms. This form of Islamic school, called
The initial resistance to the idea that women go to Islamic education classes outside their homes consists mainly of Islâmiyyah teachers ' families
The assistant headmaster of this school described Some of the issues these teachers and female students face:
"There had been a lot of issues. Not only here but in many areas. Others, their husbands had declined to let them attend the school, other women got separated from their husbands instead their husbands didn't educate them and refused to let them go to this kind of school”.
Despite these obstacles, between 1980 and 1985 in Zaria Metropolis, nine Islāmiyyah schools started to hold classes for married Women (see Table
"Due to the the fact that the children will grow up and remember the school, they will enter and also respect the school founder And even if they have not prayed for you, Almighty Allah will see that you have done something good for mankind in life "(Interview: Magajin Gari and Alhaji Nuhu Bamalli).
Groups of people who supported
"I was one of the first people to start this school in 1981. After praying, we were in the mosque and I felt it was necessary for married women to come out and learn to be vast in Islamic religion. So, we took the matter to Ulama Izālah. We accepted the idea and almost immediately started the school, first with the teachers' spouses who taught in the classroom."
The early resistance of husbands and non-
“a lot of difficulties were faced in the earlier stages of establishing the school, the problem subsided after a lot of people saw the benefits associated with implementation of the school. The men sent their spouses and children to school” (Interview: Jibril Abdul- Karim, 17th April 2019, Zaria metropolitan).
As for the educational background of these new schools ' head teachers and students, many of them had diplomas in Islamic and Arabic studies; one had a National Education Certificate (NCE) in Arabic; another had a Business Diploma (computer science courses); and several others had secondary school certificates.
Islāmiyyah for married women: Classes, Syllabuses, Pedagogics, and Tools
Each head teacher of the schools in question specified the micro-practices meant for managing their schools, including courses for teaching, by what means to attend class, collect school fees and advance students between grades. Such schools did not have regular curricula, as depicted in Table
"We use teaching materials such as blackboards, erasers, textbooks, and books for lessons. If we read a passage to them three times, then we demand that they read it after us and recommend the individual read it in this way. Then we will need them to copy it into their books too. The student goes through an assessment into the next class, which is like an interview. We plan the questions that we put to them. (Interview: Suraj Hassan Ahmad, May 2019, Zaria Metropolis)
Present Islamic School in Zaria Metropolis
When asked why Islamic education was formed for married women in Metropolis of Zaria, schoolteachers unanimously believed that they were founded to Eliminate literacy and show them how to bring up their children properly. Most schools offered classes both for children and married women; some have men's groups too. Although most teachers are men, some schools have female teachers, for example Al-Abass Madarasatul Islāmiyyah and Makaran Ta'limil Islāmiyyah.
Some head teachers stated that the schools of Islāmiyyah began at the entrances (Zaure), or a home garage residence for married women, whose owners allowed teachers to use the room to teach women. Some schools like Madarasatul ni Sadul Islam Makaranta Kuttu in Anguwar Alkali continued in this way, as reported by its head teacher:
"Reason behind forming of this school is simply because our women-only sit at home They didn't know their religion. Some do not even know how to pray, so we set up the school so that we can support them. We continuously began the school with four to six students, but now about eighty come from different places, not just this town. When they started coming to this school, nothing happened because this house's owner was welcoming, and they attended." (Interview with Muhammad Bello Dewan, 25th April 2019, town of Zaria).
Students attending classes in this type of School sat down on the floor using booklets provided by teachers who slowly communicated with the students, repeated passages and recited to them to make sure they were understood.
Islāmiyyah for married women: Their Feedback
Women who attend lectures in Islāmiyyah also say that going to the school has changed them, that "now we thank God.” Not all women hold this viewIn their compounds, some married students called women who tried to discourage them from going to school or mocked them about wearing the hijab associated with going to school Islāmiyyah (Kane, 2013).
This may include hatred of the
The reason some people do not want their spouses go to Islāmiyyah because they don't have Islamic education and they don't go to Islamiyyah, and so they refuse to let their wife go to school. "(Interview: 2019 Married woman, Metropolis Zaria).
This process seems to take on a role. One of the latest schools, Al-Abass Madarasatul Islāmiyyah, established in 1993 in Anguwar Kwarbai, has four teachers teaching Arabic studies to married women: "Teachers are all women, there are no men teaching married women," while one man was hired to teach boko (Csapo, 1981).
Nevertheless, as Kane pointed out, "There are limits to the
" Occasionally your spouse's going to tell you something that's going to offend you, if you're not careful enough you're going to answer him with frustration. But if you go to school, then you will be managing your frustration and using the hadith that says if you want to speak, say what is right or stay silent. (Interview: married woman, Zaria metropolis 2019)
Likewise, some women addressed another hadith in which a wife is asked to wait for permission from her husband before leaving the house seeing her dying parent. Therefore, whilst married women were helping students joining the public realm to attend Islāmiyyah lessons did not dispute the seclusion system and almost all of them saw seclusion marriage They wanted it as the form of marriage for their children. Although many wanted their daughters to be educated both in Islam and the Western type, they also wanted them to stay at home and bring up their kids in the authority of the husbands:
"I want to see my female children Staying at home and raise their children. The husband should take care of her needs and she should stay at home so that their children can be brought up with good behaviour; they can benefit from the education she has received”
From the point of view of some Western-educated Muslim women, this position promotes the continuous subjection of women in Northern Nigerian society, as well as the emphasis on public wearing of the hijab (Mahdi, 2009).
The above table shows Islāmiyyah schools in the Metropolis of Zaria with grades for married women. Ironically enough, eight of these first nine schools were set up in industrial old-town ward and were populated by people who were merchants, civil servants, Or just the teachers Anguwar Kwarbai, where three of the first nine schools were situated, occupy the city's central area close to the emir's palace, while Fada's school (established in 1984) is adjacent to the emir's palace, and Babban Dodo's school is located on the main road to the palace. Two of the other early schools were built in the field beside the main entrance. Another school, Ma'ahad Ulimiddinil Islāmiyyah, was built in 1984, at Anguwar Kaura, by the Kwarbai-born Alhaji Muhammad Tukur. These very schools are the story of Izalah's early supporters, who tended to be more affluent, more urban and more educated in Islamic and Western traditions (Coles & Mack, 2013).
Problem Statement
Over the decades, dissemination of proper Islamic teachings, thorough research, and unbiased analysis of the contribution of Islamiyyah schools to the development of education among Muslim women in Zaria of Kaduna State have not been fully exploited. This is because the traditional Qur'anic school system could not satisfy the needs of the present fast-changing society (Abubakar & Abdullah, 2017).
It is incredible, therefore, to see some non-Muslims or ignorant Muslims who undermine or relegate Islamiyyah schools is where only devotional practices are taught and reward obtained in the hereafter (Maccido, 2011). These incredible misconceptions are due to a lack of proper knowledge of Islamic education and the lack of dissemination of research findings on Islam. Prejudice in analysing the actual outcomes of researches that favor Islam and the inferiority complex on the side of some Islamiyyah schoolteachers is another cause of the problems.
Research Questions
The research of this paper includes:
What are the subjects of the Islamiyyah schools’ syllabus?
What the relevance of women Islamiyyah schools to the Muslim community in Zaria, Kaduna State?
What are the differences between Islamiyyah and Qur’anic school?
Do Islamiyyah schools enable Muslim women to fully understand the ritual aspects of their religion (Islam)?
Do Muslim husbands allow their wives to attend Islamiyyah schools?
Purpose of the Study
The purpose of this research is to identify the contributions of women
Research Methods
Research design is a schematic of activities or specification of the method and methods to be followed in order to obtain the most valid answer to the research question or to achieve the study objectives with optimum control of variance and the composition of a clearly formulated collection of suggested guidelines for the study's efficacy (Goddard & Melville, 1996).
This research was conducted to carry out the focus ‘Muslim women Education and
Sources and Method of Data Collection
This paper explicitly used primary and secondary data collection methods. The primary data consist of the information gathered from the data collected from the interviewee. In contrast, secondary data included the use of online databases, pertinent journals, archives, and textbooks for the study.
Population, Sample and Sampling Technics
The population of this paper focused on the Islāmiyyah for married women in the Zaria Metropolis area of. The sample is the subset of the population, for this study, only nineteen Islāmiyyah for married women were interviewed out of thousand schools, married women, and school Headmasters were involved in the investigation for the population study.
Sampling Technics
The selection of the Zaria local government area (L.G.A) was based on the highest concentration of Islamiyyah schools and the number of Muslim populations in Kaduna state. For emphasis, 19 Islamiyyah schools were randomly selected out of many schools and because of convenience. Random sampling implies that every individual member of the population has a definite probability of been selected (Marshall, 1996).
Research Instrument
The instruments for data collection for this study includes an unstructured interview. Although this interview was conducted and used for the representative of boards of trustee members, every one of them was interviewed separately. The main aim of this interview was to collect information on the role of Management boards in the teaching process of Islamiyyah schools.
Method of Data Analysis
The data of the unstructured interview collected from the subjects was summarily analysed.
Findings
As mentioned under the sampling of this study in 19 Islāmiyyah schools considered for interview within Zaria Local Government Areas of Kaduna State. Below table is the summary of the interview:
Table
The school continues to hold Classes for married women. Six new facilities for Islāmiyyah were developed between 1990 and 1995 either in the communities nearby to Anguwar Kwarbai, or alongside the major road as well as Kofar Doka and Kwarbai. Nonetheless, 11 schools were opened (or reopened) from 1996 to 2002, mostly in more pastoral areas such as Anguwar Kusfa, Anguwar Albarakawa and Anguwar Bishar, Anguwar Amaru and Kofar, more remote from the city centre. The figure also includes two schools that opened but were closed in the 1980s in the metropolis of Zaria (see Table
Conclusion
Most of the data were collected from well-experienced teachers who have taught for over ten years. Many Islāmiyyah schoolteachers engage themselves in acquiring the Western system of education, which is necessary for our survival in this world. This is evidence of the fact that Islam is a complete way of life which Islamiyyah schools do try to uphold. Islamic education.
There is harmony between
The curriculum of
The Islāmiyyah schools also have excellent bearings on women's social interactions with their husbands, parents, children, neighbors and society.
Acknowledgments
We greatly acknowledged the school of Humanities (PPIK) Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) for the postgraduate international conference fund.
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Abdullatif, B., & Sharif, M. F. M. (2020). Muslim Women Education and Izālah Movement in Kaduna State of Nigeria. In N. Samat, J. Sulong, M. Pourya Asl, P. Keikhosrokiani, Y. Azam, & S. T. K. Leng (Eds.), Innovation and Transformation in Humanities for a Sustainable Tomorrow, vol 89. European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences (pp. 14-23). European Publisher. https://doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2020.10.02.2