Alhassan Abdul Rahma, a PhD student from the Department of History will share an overview of his dissertation with the CAS community. His talk is titled, The Pivotal Contributions of Ghanaian Muslim Women Activists in the Development of Integrated Islamic Education (1980-2020).
This dissertation chapter draws Muslim women into the conversation of proprietorship and the administration of Islamic schools in Ghana. The chapter argues that Muslim women activists expanded access to both religious and secular knowledge from the 1980s and aimed to correct the pitfalls in public Islamic schools supervised by the IEU. Their effort was akin to ‘social entrepreneurship’ that paid little attention to monetary profit. Instead, they aimed to address the problem of inadequate schools for Muslim children, especially girls.
