Which of the following statements most accurately describes the status of women in bedouin society prior to Islam?
a. Women were regarded as little more than property with neither rights nor status.
b. They enjoyed greater freedom and higher status then Byzantine and Sasanian women.
c. Women were the equals of males in the rugged society of the desert bedouin.
d. Descent in bedouin tribes was strictly patrilineal.
e. Women were permitted to take more than one husband (with approval of their mother).
Answer: B