ABSTRACT
Contrary to common knowledge, Islam gave women numerous rights and privileges: it prohibited female infanticide, allowed women full management of their own money, gave them the right of inheritance, the right to be educated, and the right to be consulted before being given away, by their male guardians, in marriage (to name just a few). Unfortunately, many of these Islamic rights have been denied to Muslim women over the centuries by conservative patriarchal systems within certain Islamic communities.
