Fatima al-Kabbaj
| Fatima al-kabbaj | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1932 |
| Residence | Fez, Morocco |
| Nationality | Moroccan |
| Education | University of al-Qarawiyyin |
Fatima al Kabbaj was one of the few first female students to attend the University of al-Qarawiyyin. And she later on became "the sole female member of the Moroccan Supreme Council of Religious Knowledge"[1]
Education
Fatima al-kabbaj started her education at the a dar al faqiha where she learnt Quran. Then she moved to Madrasa al-najah for her elementary studies. After finishing her studies, al-Kabbaj and her family realized that there is limited opportunities for higher studies. After several discussions and debates about the introduction of women to the University of al-Qarawiyyin, al-Kabbaj was admitted to the university along with 9 other female students. She stayed there for 10 years and graduated in the mid-1950s.[1]
She would later provide education to the king and his family in sharia, and argued that women were often better able to engage the illiterate and poor than the state-appointed Imams.[2]
Her experience was described as "challenge assumptions about Moroccan women’s historical access to religious authority and their mobility within the male-dominated field of Islamic scholarship."[1]
References
- 1 2 3 Ahmed, Sumayya. "Learned Women: Three Generations of Female Islamic Scholarship in Morocco". The Journal of North African Studies. 21 (3): 470–484. doi:10.1080/13629387.2016.1158110.
- ↑ Mehdi Parvizi Amineh (2007). TheGreater Middle East in Global Politics: Social Science Perspectives on the Changing Geography of the World Politics. Leiden: Brill. p. 266. ISBN 90-04-15859-6.