Did women have the right to own and independently manage property before similar rights spread through much of the Western world?
ANo, women could never own property in Islamic law
BYes — Islamic law granted women independent property rights from its earliest period
COnly widowed women could own property
DOnly after the 20th century
Explanation
Islamic law recognized a woman’s independent right to own, buy, sell, and manage property and wealth from the earliest period of Islam, a right many other legal systems granted women only much later.
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