Did women actually have more rights in pre-Islamic Arabia? How was Khadija able to be a rich merchant? She was even in a position of power, she was Muhammad's boss. If women supposedly had less rights before Islam then how was Khadija a rich woman who employed male underlings? Something is sketchy about how she died and then Muhammad inherited her fortune and started giving it away as gifts (bribes) to people who joined early Islam, then he just straight up started robbing trade caravans to give the loot away as more bribes, lol.
>>18524422Laws, social norms and religious rules are for the poorfag human cattle.
>>18524422yes its true that Islam was a reactionary force that limited the rights of women. Mohamed was only able to be a full time poet because of Khadija's financial support, but under his system she would not have been able to have that wealth.
>>18524422Women had way more rights and freedom in the entire Islamic world before the 20th century. All the jeet-tier anti woman shit is entirely a Najdi LARP enforcing their backwards culture on the rest of the Muslim world. Now retards actually think shit like burkas are integral parts of Islam.
>>18524722Before Islam shit was jeer-tier, like in Europe before Christianity. Fathers could murder their little girls if they felt a later dowry would be too much of a burden.
Yes, pre-islamic arabic was more egalitarian and in some places matriarchial especially the south and by Yemen. Sely Sajah bint al-Harith, came from an Arab Christian family from the tribes of Banu Taghlib and Banu Tamim who claimed to be a prophetess even. She declared herself a prophet and gathered a substantial following, . She married the rival prophet Musaylimah. Both of them seem to have endorsed similiar things. They both advocated equal rights for men and women, prohibition of polygamy as wrong on rational and religious grounds, prohibition of cousin marriage, emancipation of slaves who joined his movement, allowance of premarital sex, opposition to circumcision, and rejection of the Kaaba as a required direction of prayer. In Islamic narrative, they are portrayed as emblematic of some of the pre-Islam ways. Such accounts appear in the Dabestan-e Mazaheb.
The Nabataean Kingdom is very notable because it was considered as the center of the Arabic world before Islam. inscriptions show women could own property, inherit wealth, initiate legal transactions, commission tombs, and appear independently in contracts. Nabataean queens such as Shaqilath II and Huldu appeared on coinage alongside kings, suggesting substantial public authority. In South Arabia, particularly the kingdoms of Saba, Himyar, and Qataban, inscriptions indicate that women could own land, dedicate temples, engage in commerce, and in some cases exercise political influence through elite lineages. The most famous example is Bilqis. Some South Arabian inscriptions also suggest that lineage and inheritance could be traced through both male and female lines, giving women greater economic security than was common elsewhere. Some priestly roles were only for women as well. These returning and their dances reappearing is actually cited in early Islamic literature as occuring as a sign the end of the world was coming. Egalitarian features included women's independent property rights, participation in long-distance trade, legal standing in contracts, inheritance rights, religious patronage, and the public visibility of queens and elite women. Generally, a lot of the patriarchial material were associated with pre-Islamic and Islamic practices of the Quraish tribe. Islam just codified elements of it alongside elements of pre-islamic religion and beliefs.
Among Arab Christians, especially in northern Arabia and among tribes such as the Banu Taghlib and Ghassanids, women could inherit property, participate in tribal diplomacy, and occasionally exercise political influence through noble families. Nuns were common as well.Among Arab Jews, particularly those of Yathrib and the oasis settlements of northwestern Arabia, women appear to have possessed significant economic roles through agriculture, trade, and property ownership. Although these communities followed Jewish law, their social practices were also shaped by Arabian tribal customs. Historical reports indicate that women could own wealth independently.Arab Zoroastrians were were also pretty egalitarian and concentrated primarily in eastern Arabia, particularly the region of Bahrain and along the Persian Gulf. Because they were heavily influenced by Sasanian legal traditions, women could own property, inherit wealth, and engage in contracts. High class women though had a bit more restrictions for example and veiled to seperate themselves from slave women. This practice also exists in Islam.
One of the things outsdiers obseversed of the early Muslims was that they were more patriarchal than others and how closely it was linked to slavery. Early Roman and Zoroastrian encounters for example could not tell they were religion all the time and some thought though they were just raiders because they seemed focused on banning adoption, taking slaves and collecting goods. At the time, the Byzantines had made legislation aganist slavery so it seemed like the religion focused on slavery in a way and jobs like nuns and monks were prohibited to take more slaves. Zoroastrains noted that veils were nobles but slaves were to be naked. There was no middle ground for women who worked.
>>18524422No. They buried newborn girls alive. Much of Islam's attitudes towards women comes from pre-Islamic Arabia.
