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Regardless of their religion, few women worked. [/quote]

That's bullshit. Women, in both 7th century Arabia and the nations Arabs invaded worked in the fields, in the trades, in actual trading.  Muhammad's first wife didn't get rich by eating bonbons. Didn't he work FOR HER originally?
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Yes, Khadijah was wealthy. Wasn't the veil originally a status symbol, a sign that you didn't have to work with your hands, which would have been impossible with a cumbersome veil? Wearing a veil showed you were a lady of leisure.[/quote]
I don't see your point. Khadijah was wealthy but she didn't gain her wealth by not working. She was a rich businesswoman who commissioned trading caravans. She is a stark contradiction to your statement that women rarely worked.[/quote]

Sorry, I just meant to echo your point about Khadijah having more money than Mohammed - forgot to say because she was a businesswoman. The bit about veils was as add-on: the fact that some women couldn't manage veils because they worked with their hands points to the fact that, indeed, women were working.[/quote]

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