Reconstruction of Understanding of Women's Hadiths: Creating an Egalitarian Islamic Education System

Abstract

The disproportionate understanding of the normative hadith texts gave rise to the wrong assumptions about women. Reconstructing such an understanding is a necessity in order to rediscover essential, universal and egalitarian Islamic messages. The sequence, it will have implications for the relationship between men and women, including in the Islamic education system. Therefore, this paper aims to make efforts to reconstruct the understanding of gender bias in understanding al-Hadith about women. By using a contextual approach, the resulting construction of an understanding that men and women have commensurate relations with their respective creature natures and has implications for an egalitarian Islamic education system that focuses on empowering people(Insya asy-syay'i ila kamalihi halan fahalan)based on the Al-Qur'an and al-Hadith, namely trying to develop and foster all aspects and potential that exist in themselves in a balanced way, including women, not only emphasizing one aspect and leaving other aspects, so that they can achieve a happy life in the world and here after