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Abstract Education has been recognized as one of the most important tools of empowerment. It develops the personality and rationality of individuals, qualifies them to fulfil certain economic, political and cultural functions and thereby improves socio-economic status. Economic empowerment includes poverty eradication and income generation and social empowerment includes education, health and nutrition etc. Apart from these parameters other aspects which determine women's empowerment are mobility, self esteem and choice of career. In the case of Muslim women the state of empowerment is still not clear hence a study about their actual status is required. In many cases we find a number of myths related to their rights being propagated by various extremist groups (both Hindu and Muslim). It is by and large observed that while the outsiders carry a very biased view of Muslim women and are generally not aware of the reality, Muslim women also tend to not realize their actual status. Most of them are not clear about the rights given to them by Islam as a religion as well as the Indian constitution. The present paper highlights the status of Muslim women in context of the Quaran and Hadith about their rights and duties.