Indian women’s education system is probably different from their situation or fashioning a system of education towards an updated world. In terms of education, Muslim women are lagging behind their male counterparts and other communities. From the ancient period, Islam tried to juxtapose women and their education system and think about how they can develop their society to a high-ranking position among others.
The combination of the education system and its development was an attempt to integrate both traditional education and modern secular knowledge. This type of combined education system is a unique experiment that was initiated in the 13th century via a most influential and mystic woman ruler, who balanced her kingdom and societal development. She was the ruler known for her excellency and the first woman ruler of Delhi Sultanate: Razia Sultana.
Razia Sultana was one of the strongest rulers of the entire Delhi Sultanate. She was born in 1205 at Badaun and passed away on 15 October 1240 at Kaithal. She was belonging to the Sunni religion and was a brave and gallant lady in Indian history. She has many contributions to the Muslim community during her ruling period. Thus, she pays her half attention to improving the educational system of India and its sub-continents in educational infrastructure and heritages.
In the order of her reforms, she set up many Schools, Madrasas, and some academies apart from libraries and some research centers. Her reformation of the Madrasa educational system was a new approach that will take time to digest and practice in Muslim society. However, slowly it designs and constructs a new culture of education for its audiences.
The majority of women are receiving the primary education or culture from that types of Madrasas and schools, but some women surely had the freedom to have their higher philosophical knowledge and cultural accomplishment. She brought teachers from Iraq, Afghan, and Turkmenistan to teach in those madrasas.
Because she believes that, teachers are the main pillars of the nation-building of the educational development process to step up the next generation toward influence and development and make them moral, responsible, and productive members of society.
According to historian Minlaj-i-Siraj: ‘Preindependent India, especially before Mughal Dynasty has witnessed many reforms in educational sectors especially in Madrasa Sects’. Here, all of these reforms are neither much-oriented nor long-lasting. Nevertheless, its simple reason could be traced to some social dilemma of lack of a modern education system.
The study explores the prevailing situation of women’s education in Islamic culture concerning the use of educational technology. This article argues that the awareness of Muslim scholarship in education was a disinfected or hygienic situation that is proven by the ancient history of the Delhi sultanate (especially the contribution of Razia Sultana Toward the Muslim community) to the Mughal dynasty.
The result of the research indicated the awareness and proficiency of women’s pedagogy in Islamic educational sectors in using educational technology. However, certain challenges can be found just as the nonavailability of resources, lack of funds, etc.
Keywords: Muslim Education, Raziya Sultana, Educational Influence, 13th Century, Government Initiatives, Educational Technology.