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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Muhammad's first wife was able to get rich, run her own business, hire workers, propose marriage to the poor, much younger man of her choice and marry him - all in pre-Islamic Arabia.  Hardly the land of darkness you describe. [/quote]

Which is why she is talked about so much, it was not common at all. [/quote]

That's your theory. [b]My theory is that she's talked about so much because she was the Prophet's wife.  If she was eighteen, poor and placed into this marriage by her parents, she'd still be talked about just as much.[/b]

We have no evidence her example was uncommon.

Here is what Khadija's example tells us about women's opportunities in pre-Islamic Arabia:

- women could be rich 
 - women could run a business
 - women could live without a husband
 - women could hire workers for their business using their own judgment
 - women could identify men they were interested in marrying, and propose to them 
 - forty-year old widows with multiple kids weren't considered unmarriageable (would you like to be a forty-year old with three or four kids looking to get married in, say, Pakistan or Bahrain or Indonesia today?) 
 - women received dowries from their husbands.

Days of darkness? Really?

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I was going to write that, you beat me to it.[/quote]

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