scarce information regarding women in pre-Islamic Arabia. Most of it originates from Hadith and historical traditions, pre-Islamic poetry, and early biographical...

Religion in pre-Islamic Arabia included indigenous Arabian polytheism, ancient Semitic religions, Christianity, Judaism, Mandaeism, and Zoroastrianism...

Pre-Islamic Arabia (Arabic: شبه الجزيرة العربية قبل الإسلام), referring to the Arabian Peninsula before Muhammad's first revelation in 610 CE, is referred...

non-normative nature of Arabian Judaism(s) is also ill-understood. Pre-Islamic Jews were not unified linguistically. In Arabia, they variously spoke Greek...

In pre-Islamic Arabia, a variety of different marriage practices existed. The most common and recognized types of marriage at this time consisted of:...

prominent monotheistic religions of pre-Islamic Arabia. Christianization emerged as a major phenomena in the Arabian peninsula during the period of late...

Pre-Islamic Arabic poetry (or simply pre-Islamic poetry) refers to the corpus of Arabic poetry composed in pre-Islamic Arabia roughly between 540 and...

beliefs in pre-Islamic Arabia, with many of the deities' names known. Up until about the time between the fourth century AD and the emergence of Islam, polytheism...

significant advances in women's rights. Women's societal roles in Saudi Arabia are heavily affected by Islamic and local traditions of the Arabian Peninsula. Wahhabism...

the pre-Islamic Arabian kingdom of Nabataea that women in the kingdom had more independence than women in modern Saudi Arabia. Al-Fassi was active in women's...

include pre-Islamic cultural traditions; secular laws, which are fully accepted in Islam so long as they do not directly contradict Islamic precepts;...

developed Islamic law, she believes Islam in itself is neutral in regards to women's rights. Under the customary tribal law existing in Pre-Islamic Arabia women...

bring about positive change for women in the Arab world. Many writers have discussed the status of women in pre-Islamic Arabia, and their findings have been...

Saudi Arabia. The kingdom is called the "home of Islam"; it was the birthplace of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, who united and ruled the Arabian Peninsula...

Persians." A similar stone inscription of pre-Islamic Arabia was said to have been found underneath the Kaaba in Mecca. The known history of the al-Abnāʾ...

research into the status of women in the pre-Islamic Arabian kingdom of Nabataea as the book Women in Pre-Islamic Arabia: Nabataea. Some of the evidence...

in the Arabian Peninsula by the Ottoman authorities. Enslaved Africans were sold in the Arab World since antiquity. While in Pre-Islamic Arabia, Arab war...

Rape in Saudi Arabia is regulated by Saudi Arabia's interpretation of Sharia law, under which someone convicted of the criminal offense of rape can be...

non-Muslims. Saudi Arabia is an Islamic theocracy. Religious minorities do not have the right to practice their religion openly. Conversion from Islam to another...

in Islam, Mecca and Medina. With a population of almost 32.2 million, Saudi Arabia is the fourth most populous country in the Arab world. Pre-Islamic...

in English-language sources) is a government religious authority in Saudi Arabia that is charged with implementing the Islamic doctrine of hisbah in the...

among Islamic scholars until medieval times, when the term came to be associated with homosexuality. Mukhannathun already existed in pre-Islamic Arabia, during...

the Arabian Jahiliyyah law, Islamic sources allege that no limitations were set on men's rights to marry or to obtain a divorce.[page needed] Islamic law...

Saudi Arabia is an Islamic country and therefore Islam is interwoven in every part of society, also in education.[citation needed] Islamic studies are part...

Polygamous marriages are legally recognized for men in Saudi Arabia, in accordance with Islamic Sharia law, which allows for Muslim men to marry up to...

fictional narrative is recorded in Persian and Arabic sources of the early Islamic period, and some of its elements inspired some modern stories. Its general...

permissible only within marriage. Concubinage was a custom practiced in both pre-Islamic Arabia and the wider Near East and Mediterranean. The Quran allowed this...

in pre-Islamic Arabia: Nabataea. Archaeopress. p. 3. ISBN 9781407300955. Borody, W. A. (10–15 August 1998). "Classical Greek Philosophical Paideia in Light...

main genres in which ancient and medieval Arabic female poets are known to have composed. Almost all known pre-Islamic women's poetry is in this form....

The cultural setting of Saudi Arabia is greatly influenced by the Arab and Islamic culture. The society is in general deeply religious, conservative,...