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Women in Pre-Islamic Arabia
Depiction of the costumes of women in the 4th-6th centuries
Under the customary tribal law existing in Arabia before the rise of Islam, as a general rule women had virtually no legal status; fathers sold their daughters into marriage for a price, the husband could terminate the union at will, and women had little or no property or succession rights.
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