آداب الرافدين (Mar 1979)

Arab women and education

  • Tawfik Aluzbaky

DOI
https://doi.org/10.33899/radab.1979.166148
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 10
pp. 470 – 479

Abstract

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The Arab society before Islam in the Arabian Peninsula was based on the supremacy of men in the family, but with these rights of the man, women had a great position that corresponded to the greatness of the responsibilities that they carried out. The tribe’s strength in peace and war, as it used to contribute during the war by sponsoring the fighters, such as providing water, providing food, dressing the wounded, and encouraging men to fight, in addition to being a source of profit for her guardian who takes friendship upon her marriage, and it also suggests to poets with imagination and to men with ambition. These actions and attributes have a prominent place in society. And to signify her respect by the community from addressing her (inviolability), which came from respect and the housewife as evidence of appreciating her position in it, and she used to play an important political and social role. With the clan of his maternal uncles, it may be no less powerful than his link with his uncles, and this has a great impact on the rapprochement between the sons of the Arab community.

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