📘 ❞ Women rsquo s Rights: A Historical Perspective ❝ كتاب ــ عبد الله بن هادي القحطاني اصدار 2003

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I am very grateful to Allah the Almighty for His

guidance and infinite bounties. Without His gener-
osity, inspiration and infinite bounties, I would be

helpless.
My sincere thanks are due to those many
people who helped in turning the compilation of this
book into existence among whom are the oneís
below:
My sincere brother Dr. Abdallah Abu-Ishi for
his effort in reviewing the final draft. His moving
words of encouragement and guidance were of
great help.

Sister Om Muhammad for her very accu-
rate effort in spotting the smallest of mistakes and

patience in following the thread of arguments. May

Allah reward her for the tiring and the time consum-
ing task!

My loving thanks to the women who inspired
the writing of this book and were always there to

give all the needed support and dua': my late grand-
mother, my mother Fatimah, my wife Aysha, my

sister Amra, my two daughters Areej and Fatimah ,
and Mona, my sister in Islam.

DEDICATION
I dedicate this second edition of my

book, Women's Rights: A Historical Per-
spective, to the man who was behind the

publication of the first edition of this
book. He is living in our world no more
but his efforts in informing people about
Islam are still very salient. I ask Allah
to reward him abundantly for his great
efforts and gather us with our Prophet
in Paradise.

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Different societies have now been forced to take a po-
sition regarding the stakes of their women. It is hardly ever

mentioned in the literature that Islam had addressed the
subject of women's rights over 1400 years, long before it
became a serious preoccupation in many other cultures,
especially in the west recently.
The issue of women's rights received much attention
in western and western-like societies for the past number of

decades. Only prophet Muhammad (S.A.A.W.), through Di-
vine revelation, was able to restore dignity and rights to

women who were living in very degrading circumstances
centuries before women in other nations were given parts
of their rights.
Many feminist writers are enthusiastic in condemning

the treatment of Muslim Women. Sometimes, they mix be-
tween the pure Islamic teachings and the irresponsible per-
sonal or cultural practices of some Muslims. However, some

may have been intentionally prejudiced due to the publicity

their works receive and probably the high income they re-
ceive as revenues for the sales of their books. This busi-
ness is prospering nowadays while the Islamic fundamen-
tal teachings are being unfairly attacked. Such works have

not paid attention to the teachings of Islam on the subject.
As a result, they make no attempt to distinguish between
the behavior of some Muslims and of the religion of which
they may be very ignorant.

Feminist scholarship would have done better by focus-
ing on the miserable situation that women, children and the

family are going through all over the world, including west-
ern countries. Regardless of the very tiring efforts by west-
ern women to win and secure their rights, recent statistics