(February 2, 2019 at 3:22 pm)AtlasS33 Wrote: Arab women before Islam were prohibited from inheriting the father or the husband. Female infants were also buried alive at so many times to escape the shame of having a weak child: since girls are weaker than boys.
Islam demolished all of that and restructured the image of women in the minds of ancient Arabs, from treating them as weak burdens that need to be buried alive to equal human beings.
Where do these claims come from? What's your source? If it's a written source, investigating that source could tell us whether there any biases in it, for example European explorers dismissing indigenous peoples. I don't see why later Arab writers wouldn't have a vested interest in dismissing "pre-Muhammad cultures" in the same way that Europeans looked down on illiterate societies when they went plundering around the globe.
How widespread was burying people alive? If it was as widespread at you appear to suggest, there would a massive gender imbalance (kind of like a country like The Yemen, Iran or Pakistan today, actually) and there would be generations of sexually frustrated men who would be unable to start families. There are easy ways to check the claims you make: just have a look at the burial sites. Do we see mass burial sites for babies? But..oops Saudi has been destroying many historical sites...just like Abdul Wahaab did when he went on his little rampage around Najd. These people don't respect history!
Are you suggesting every single Arab tribe, each with their individual cultures and religions (some of which would be Judaism and Christianity), buried people alive? I can perfectly understand the nomadic lifestyle viewing older persons as a burden but I keep being told by people that Mecca was this huge city that was a hub for trade (despite it not being anywhere near any major trade routes or natural resources that were needed at the time).
The lifestyle of somebody living in a settlement, like Mecca or Media is completely different from that of a nomad.
