Mighty Women in Islamic History

 

Mighty Women in Islamic History

There are many parties who think (or even accuse) Islam does not honor and respect women. They view Islam as a "cruel religion" that places women solely as "objects of violence", both "domestic violence" (domestic) and "public violence", both "cultural violence" and "structural violence" (politics and violence). power).

This assumption is built and based on a number of facts that are very sad about the suffering of the Eve during the Taliban Regime, Afghanistan, for example. Worse yet, there are a number of Islamic figures and groups who view women as nothing more than “male-satisfying creatures” who are “deserved” to be “oppressed” both in bed and out of bed. The world for some "misogynistic" groups belongs to men because it is natural for women to be backward or backward, backward or backward.

Perceptions, judgments and actions "tilted" against women are actually contrary to the facts about Islam's extraordinary respect for women. For example, this is evidenced by the emergence of quite a number of names of strong Muslim women in the history of classical and medieval Islamic culture, especially in the modern era. They emerged with various professions as hadith experts, writers, educators, doctors, librarians, mystics, merchants, lawyers, intellectuals, historians and many more.

Names such as Aisyah, Al-Shifa bint Abdullah, Umm Darda al-Sughra, Hafsa bint Umar, Sayyida Nafisa, Rabia Basri, Fatimah al-Fihri, Ammat al-Wahid, Fahrun Nisa Shuhdah, Fatimah al-Batayahiyah, Lubna, Zainab bint Umar al-Kindi, and many others are just a few examples of the mighty women who contributed enormously to the history and development of Islamic civilization in various fields: education, politics-government, science and religious studies, etc. They became bright stars that shone brightly at a time when Europe was pitch black, especially America, which was only born a few centuries ago.

Al-Shifa bint Abdullah for example is known as the first woman to have the ability to write in Mecca at the time of the Prophet Muhammad so that she taught writing to the early Muslim community in the early history of Islam, including Hafsah, Umar's daughter. Not only that, he is also known as a "traditional doctor" who was very instrumental in accompanying the Prophet Muhammad. Then Fatimah al-Fihri was instrumental in establishing the Qarawiyyin Mosque and madrasa in Fez, Morocco, in the 9th century which is now the University of Qarawiyyin and is claimed to be the oldest university in the world, while the mosque is one of the grandest in North Africa.

It's a shame that the extraordinary roles, services, and contributions of these mighty Muslim women are slowly sinking and being "drowned" by a number of men who are pretentious, pretentious, pretentious, pretentious, quasi-determining heaven, and other pretentiousness. Because of the monopoly of men (both the monopoly of religious discourse and the monopoly of the world of politics and culture), the great names of Muslim women have become immersed in the limbo of history. Unfortunately again, many Muslim women are now willing to be "exploited" and "tricked" by religious clerics who are diligent in luring heaven and scaring them with hell. Ladies, congratulations on imitating Raden Ajeng Kartini and don't want to be fooled by "Ustad Kartono"...