An Exploration of the Consequences of Two Alternatives on Women's Needs for Higher Education in Saudi Arabia

A Women's Independent University and a Women's Open University

The Qur ' an , which is the first source of Islamic jurisprudence , contains no verse
that deprives or denies women the right to be educated . The word Qur ' an itself
is derived from the word ' reading and the first verse of the Qur ' an is a call to ...