The CEDAW Agreement and its educational implications for the Muslim family A critical analytical study from the Islamic perspective

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Lecturer of Islamic Education - College of Education for Boys in Cairo - Al-Azhar

Abstract

The study aimed to introduce the Convention on the Elimination of Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), which was approved by the United Nations in 1979 AD, to reveal its provisions, and to study it in a critical analytical study from the Islamic perspective. The study also aimed to explain the educational and moral repercussions of this agreement on the Muslim family in light of this Contemporary changes, and tremendous progress. In technology, public and private media. The study also aimed to develop a set of mechanisms to confront the risks resulting from this agreement in light of the temptations and moral challenges targeting Muslim women.
The study adopted the fundamentalist approach with the aim of studying the issue under study in light of Islamic principles (the Qur’an and the Sunnah), And analyze and criticize it, in addition to benefiting from the opinions and jurisprudence of Islamic education thinkers.
The study reached several conclusions, the most important of which are: that some provisions of this agreement are inconsistent with Islamic legislation, which preserves women's rights and dignity without excess or deficiency. This agreement does not accept the traditional form of the family, which is considered the most important educational medium in Muslim societies and works to destroy the family unit and establish alternative models. Public and private media played an effective role in directly and indirectly promoting the provisions of this agreement and working to justify and accept it in conservative Eastern societies. Terms included in the agreement, such as discrimination, the stereotypical family, and reproductive health, have different connotations in the West.

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