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26 August, 03:42

Why might woman in arab society have welcomed islam?

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  1. 26 August, 04:11
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    Prophet Muhammad in his historical context dramatically improved the rights and position of women in society. Islam encourages the education of women who, during the Golden Age of Islam, have established some of the most prestigious and important universities in the Islamic world.

    In Islam woman and man are equal: The woman is not the source of evil and doom, and some scholars interpret the Koranic verses so that she was not even created by Adam's famous third rib, but both man and woman were created "from one soul.".

    Muhammad forbade the killing of a female infant (a common practice in pre-Islam Arab society was to bury unwanted female babies alive in the ground).

    Under Islamic law, women cannot be forced into marriage and has right to divorce.

    Explanation:

    Islam changed the law on the mahr (buying a bride), required to make the marriage legal. However, unlike, for example, the traditional European practice - in which this money is given to the parents of the bride, and in contrast to the dowry in which the bride's family pays the bridegroom - in Islam it is given to the bride herself, so that in the case of divorce, she brings with her what received under the marriage contract when it was concluded.

    Islam thought sees love between man and woman as a metaphysical metaphor for the love of God (the Quran explicitly calls this love a divine sign), but not only that; This is transmitted to the next world, bearing in mind that Islam considers sexual pleasure as probably the greatest boon of going to a paradise where intercourse will be tense, and in addition there is no mention that the sole purpose of sex is reproduction.

    Marriage in Islam is not an immutable state but a contract, and therefore cannot be created without the woman's consent.
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