Islam has Raised the Status of Women
[2023-07-15 03:13:12]
"The dowry previously thought of as the price of the bride paid to his father was a wedding celebration booked by his wife as part of his personal possession" (Fanar). This sentence summarizes the transition of women from property to individuals. Women used to buy and sell women, but Islam raised the status of women in societies where women have never thought about women. In the past, some societies believed that marriage is a symbol of mere standing. A woman is thought to be a genealogy of birth of a child and building men.
In the Arab region, discussions on women's rights are currently focused on reform of family law. In fact, under the name of Muslim, it is promoted to the status of religion in the country, and modern law gives a lower position than men over women. From the Middle East to North Africa, a normative system centered on women, especially women, has been built. It is subordinate to Islamic law or Islamic law and legalizes the scope of family law in various ways. Integrating the connection between religion and political order, turning the family into a male-dominated fortress. People can only look at the rules of marriage, such as conquest of marriage, banning labor unions between Muslims and non-Muslims, and relations between marriage partners based on maintaining duty. I will be there.
In the early stages of Muslim in the seventh century, changes in the rights of women affected marriage, divorce, and inheritance. "Oxford Islamic Dictionary" believes that infant murder occurs before and after Muslim, but insists on an overall improvement in the status of women in Arab societies, including prohibition of the killing of female infants . According to the Islamic law, marriage is no longer considered a position, regardless of whether it is voluntary or silent, it is regarded as a contract requiring women's consent. "The dowry was a wedding celebration booked by his wife as part of his personal possession, the price of the bride who was previously thought to be paid to his father" (see also Dower)
Many people / writers are already discussing the status of women in the former Arab region of Islam, and their findings are intermingled. According to the customary tribal law, where Islam appears in Arabia, women generally have little legal status in principle. They are sold to the guardian at the guardian's price, the husband can freely dismiss the union, and the woman has little or no property rights or inheritance rights. Some writers believe that women before Muslim are more free, the most common being the first marriage of Muhammad and Muhammad's parents, and other aspects such as worshiping women's idols in Mecca . On the contrary, other writers have agreed to state that the status of women in the former Muslim Arab region is very poor, such as infant women, infinite polygamy, father's marriage. Saudi history historian Hatoon al-Fassi considers the early historical origins of Arab women's rights