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Women in Society: The Arab Context.

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Women in Society: The Arab Context.

   Added on 2019-09-23

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Women in Society: The Arab ContextThe role of women in traditional Arabic tribal society had been a complicated one andthis can be argued by citing the mores and conventions of the concerned society in terms of restricting and confining the activities of women up to certain specific limits. But it must be said that their roles and responsibilities were far more liberalized in the pre-Islamic period than in the Islamic period. In this respect, Zaki (2016), referring to Ahmed has stated that “in come cultures of the Middle East women had been considerably better off before the rise of Islam than afterward.” Such a comment is enough to fuel debates among scholars regarding the nature of the role of women in traditional Arabic tribal society that existed and flourished before the actual rise of Islam. It can be quite interesting to learn that women played a wider role in pre-Islamic traditional Arabic tribal society, and this can be argued by pointing towards the writings of early historians and scholars who did show by providing examples how the Islamic religious leaders showed dissent to the acts that were performed by women in the ‘pre-Islamic time’ (Zaki, 2016). Quite pathetically, in the Islamic period, interpreting the Quran in the wrong way, some prominent Islamic religious heads suggested that the rights that Quran has given to men are thoroughly different that what it has given to women (Zaki, 2016). This shows that in the Islamic period, in the Arabic society, gender inequity was established as a norm and as such a norm was anti-pre-Islamic, one can say that the role of women in the traditional Arabic tribal society was more expansive and liberal than the role of women in thesociety after the rise and establishment of Islam. (291 words)
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