To evaluate the effect of Islam on the status of women, many writers have discussed the status of women in pre-Islamic Arabia, and their findings have been mixed. To this effect it instituted a number of rights and responsibilities for the Muslim, Jewish, and pagan communities of Medina bringing them within the fold of one community-the Ummah. Majid Khadduri writes that under the Arabian pre-Islamic law of status, women had virtually no rights, whereas Sharia (Islamic law) provided women with several rights. Any violation of a natural law will result in a natural consequence. Those of you that finally continue in a natural condition, that shall keep out of hell longest will be there in a little time! Byzas the Megarian gave the region its name in 700 B.C.E., and a small settlement of Greeks lived there until 300 B.C.E. Do you know the name of this Brazilian statue, which is arguably the most famous statue of Jesus in the world? Others might think of the person who achieved the most notoriety and name Adolf Hitler, the German dictator responsible for starting World War II (which resulted in the deaths of 50 million people) and the Holocaust, the state-sponsored murders of 6 million Jews and millions of disabled people, Poles, homosexuals and Soviets.

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The Qur’an rejected the pre-Islamic idea of children as their fathers’ property and abolished the pre-Islamic custom of adoption. The Quran also replaced the pre-Islamic custom of adoption (assimilation of an adopted child into another family in a legal sense) by the recommendation that believers treat children of unknown origin as “their brothers in the faith and clients”. Watt explains the historical context surrounding women’s rights at the time of Muhammad: “It appears that in some parts of Arabia, notably in Mecca, a matrilineal system was in the process of being replaced by a patrilineal one at the time of Muhammad. Growing prosperity caused by a shifting of trade routes was accompanied by a growth in individualism. Men were amassing considerable personal wealth and wanted to be sure that this would be inherited by their actual sons, and not simply by an extended family of their sisters’ sons.” Muhammad, however, by “instituting rights of property ownership, inheritance, education and divorce, gave women certain basic safeguards”. A number islamic theologians state that changes in areas such as social security, family structure, slavery and the rights of women improved on what was present in existing Arab society.

William Montgomery Watt states that Muhammad was both a social and moral reformer. John Esposito sees Muhammad as a reformer who condemned practices of the pagan Arabs such as female infanticide, exploitation of the poor, usury, murder, false contracts, fornication, adultery, and theft. Other writers, on the contrary, have argued that women’s status in pre-Islamic Arabia was poor, citing practices of female infanticide, unlimited polygyny, patrilineal marriage and others. However she also argues that these weren’t caused by Islam itself rather it was influence of patriarchal culture of the people who developed Islamic law, she believes Islam in itself is neutral in regards to women’s rights. Upper-class women usually had more rights than tribal women and might own property or even inherit from relatives. Leila Ahmed argues that examples of women inheriting from male relatives in pre-Islamic Mecca and other Arabian trade cities are recorded in Islamic sources. According to The Oxford Dictionary of Islam, women were also granted the right to live in the matrimonial home and receive financial maintenance during marriage and a waiting period following the death and divorce. 4. The reverence of and compliance with ancestral traditions, a practice challenged by Islam – which instead assigned primacy to submitting to God and following revelation.