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And if the wife was evil enough to throw thorns in the Prophets path so his feet would be cut and if she wanted him death, it should follow that all women held lofty positions of right and privilege in pre-islamic Arabia? Is this your persuasive argument?  Her husband completely supported her in his own view so she was simply supporting her husband's position against the Prophet.

Nice try disparaging Islam again.[/quote]
My argument is - and I think I made it very well - that not all women in pre-Islamic Arabia were wordless, right-less chattels as you tried to present.[/quote]

You have clearly been good at only one thing and that is moving the goal posts, particularly since I began quoting or referencing world renowned scholars who contradict you on several points. This is sufficient proof to DCUMers that you had an agenda all along, to disparage Islam by publishing misleading or false information.

If very few women, such as those of upper class primarily ( khadija) enjoyed some status, but overall the condition for women pre Islam was perilous, DCUMers should be asking themselves why you would feel the need to continually draw attention to the privileged few. By drawing attention to the very few privileged women, did you hope to dissuade the unknowing public from learning that Islam did indeed elevate the status of women? It appears that was your agenda.
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Let's see what Leila Ahmed says on that account:

“Islamic civilization developed a construct of history that labeled the pre-Islamic period the Age of Ignorance and projected Islam as the sole source of all that was civilized – and used that construct so effectively in its rewriting of history that the peoples of the Middle East lost all knowledge of the past civilizations of the religion. Obviously that construct was ideologically serviceable, successful concealing, among other things, the fact that in some cultures of the Middle East women had been considerably better off before the rise of Islam than afterwards.” (p.37)

Hardly the wholesale condemnation of jahilia you were looking for, is it?
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