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.