The Present study attempts to identify the extent to which wives suffer from the violence exercised by the husband, the reasons behind the husband\'s violence against the wife, and the role of Islamic Education in facing such violence. To achieve the objectives of the study and answer its questions, the researcher used a questionnaire consisting of 3 sections: the first section consists of personal data. The second consists of 34 items describing the types of violence, psychological violence, social violence, economic violence). The third section contains an open – ended question to identify the reasons of violence against the wife. To ensure the validity of the questionnaire it was judged by a number of specialized referees. The Reliabity of the questionnaine was 91%. The sample of the study consisted of a number of married women selected at random from Mecca Al-Mukarameh region. The number of the questionnaires amounted to (450) and the, number of respondents were (330). The percentage of the analysed questionnaies was (73.33%). The findings of the study were as follows: 1- The psycholgical violence got the highest scores with an a average of 2.809. 2- The are many reasons for violence against wives, chief among those are the ones related to the husband: the husband\'s inabilty to controt his anger, misunderstanging of the the meaning of stewardship ignorance of the rights of women. Other reasons of viollence can be attributed to the wife\'s disobedience and arrogance, her inability to understand the family problems, and the wife\'s tendency to accept violence. The study proposed the following suggestions: 1- Holding training courses about the rights of both husbands and wives and the duties of the legislations approved by Islam, and the parties within the marriage relationship. 2- Intensification of the efforts of the educational institutions and other communities to counteract the culture of violence among couples and to maintain the culture of love and offection in the marital relationship.