Evaluation of Women Islamic Education in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Abstract

In recent time, women play important roles in virtually all fields of human endeavour such as politics, 
economy, religion, education, industrial relations and so on. Most specifically, the position of women 
to harness the fourth industrial revolution to foster the expected growth and development in the 
societies is sacrosanct. But Islamic religion prescribes a modus operandi which its followers should 
emulate at every stage of existence. On this premise, this paper evaluates the potential of women in 
Islamic education vis-à-vis the exigency of the fourth industrial revolution. Eleven fundamental and 
categorical statements from the holy Quran on women operations were interrogated as data. The 
principle of functional systemic analysis is applied to the said data. The findings show that women are 
restricted in a way, notwithstanding the global developmental exponentiality of the 4.0, they are to 
always take instructions from the men, they are less expected to make use of any kind of the 4.0’s 
technologies, etc. The paper concluded that for industrial revolution to witness more and more 
unmeasurable progress, teachers of women’s Islamic education should be efficiently charged to 
functions so as to bridge the gap between industrial revolution, 4.0 and the Islamic stand on women’s 
functionality.