The Reviver of Women’s Identity (Part 1): The Dark Age of Pre-Islamic Arabia
This article examines the social status of women in pre-Islamic Arab society known as the Age of Ignorance (Jahiliyyah). It explores how women were deprived of intrinsic value, treated as inherited property, and subjected to limitless polygyny. Furthermore, it highlights the extreme practices of certain aristocratic tribes, such as female infanticide, establishing the bleak historical context prior to the transformative advent of Islam and its subsequent restoration of women’s rights.
