THE STATUS OF WOMEN BETWEEN ANCIENT LEGAL SYSTEMS AND DIVINE LAWS -COMPARATIVE STUDY-
This subject highlights the status of women in some old positive legislations that were maintained throughout centuries, and in which most of them prived women of their human rights, resulting in discrimination and injustice. And it also highlights women’s legal status in religious legislations, starting with Judaism and Christianity, and its sexist regard towards women, as a result of the rewriting of Holy Books( the Torrah and the Bible), ‘til the emergence of Islamic legislation, which opposed all kinds of discrimination and injustice, honoring the woman as a human being, as a daughter, as a sister, as a wife and as a mother, and it gave her a high status that won’t be found even in modern legislations. Hence, we pose the following problem: We will try to answer this problem, through two sections: The first topic: the status of women in some ancient legal systems. The second topic: the status of women in the divine laws, including the law of Islam.
Keywords: Women's Status, Old Legal Systems, Heavenly Laws, Islamic Law