GENDER EDUCATION IDEAS IN THINKERS AND PHILOSOPHERS’ WORKS OF THE ISLAMIZATION PERIOD

Abstract

The article deals with the issues of gender education in the pedagogy of the Muslims of the East in the Middle Ages. The analysis results of such works of the eastern philosophers and thinkers as Qabus nama by Keikavus, Kutadgu Bilig by Yusuf Balasaguni, Divan lugat at-Turk by Mahmud al-Kashgari are presented. Consideration of the education issues in the ancient Turkic thinkers’ works as reflecting the foundations of ethno-pedagogical principles of all Turkic peoples’ education seems appropriate to reflect the vision of the younger generation’s gender education principles of that period by Turkic tribes. Islamization had a huge impact on changing men and women’s social roles and status. The works of ancient Turkic thinkers and philosophers reflect changes in the content, goals and objectives of gender education of the Turkic peoples’ ancestors in connection with the adoption of a new religion. Despite the fact that the considered works of ancient Turkic thinkers and philosophers contain many contradictions in younger generation’s gender education in conditions of the Islamization of Turkic and Iranian tribes, the authors note similar principles of gender education among all Turkic peoples. The study of the peculiarities of gender relationships and educational gender orientations of Russian Muslims is of particular relevance due to the large number of these ethnic groups as well as in the context of the educational space modernization in the multi-ethnic regions of Russia.