Author(s)

Mohammad Saiful Islam

Department of Law, International Islamic University Chittagong, Chittagong, Bangladesh.

Knowledge gaining and application is a fundamental necessity for all Muslims to qualify them to believe according to the ideologies of the religion. Islam ordered acquisition and dissemination of knowledge is obligatory (fard) upon its believers, irrespective of gender. The aim of education in Islam is to produce a decent human being who is talented of delivering his duties as a servant of Allah and His vicegerent (khalīfah) on earth. This paper is an effort to examine the concept, goal and objectives of education on the view point of Islam. The aim of this article is to present and analyze the exact views of Islam regarding girls’ education from the ultimate source of Islam. These works also try to pick out the common barriers of girls’ education in Bangladesh.

Education, Al Quran, Knowledge, Girls’ Education

Islam, M. (2016) Importance of Girls’ Education as Right: A Legal Study from Islamic Approach. Beijing Law Review, 7, 1-11. doi: 10.4236/blr.2016.71001.