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Khadija was an Arab woman.
Khadija was a rich businesswoman. 
Therefore, all Arab women are rich businesswomen.

This is a faulty logic example not even fit as an LSAT test question.

Surely, you can reason better than that.
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Nope, it's not faulty logic.  Just because you've miscast it, it doesn't make it faulty.  This is how it goes:

Khadija was a rich businesswoman who owned money and property, hired her own workers, and made her own decisions on whom to marry.

Where there is one, there sure were others.

Is there evidence that Khadija was an exception rather than a typical case?

Therefore, the claims that all women in jahiliya had no rights and were treated like objects are counteracted by at least one example.  Some were.  Some weren't. Perhaps it wasn't a bad bad place that Muslims say it was, and clearly not for ALL women.

It also negates the oft-repeated claim that "Islam granted women property rights" since women owned property long before Islam came on the scene.

In addition, we have Quranic testimony that women in jahiliya were given dowries.

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The fact that female infanticide was common then should have told you enough- that females were not valued. Thus, if one woman achieved success, it should be assumed to be an anomaly, not the norm.

You spent a great deal of pages in another thread arguing with Muslima about how Islam encouraged concubinage. If that was true, it would mean women were not respected or valued in Arab society. In societies where women are undervalued, they generally do not achieve success and status. Again, it shows Khadijas status was unusual, not the norm.
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