Forgotten giants: Prominent Muslim women who shaped the Islamic Golden Age
Adejumo Yaseer Oladimeji8th June 2026Save Image: The Cleveland Museum of Art/Unsplash Many people today assume that Islam deprived women of their rights and restricted their intellectual and social participation. However, historical evidence from the Islamic Golden Age (8th-14th centuries) presents a very different reality: Muslim women were scholars, educators, university founders, patrons of […]