Valdemar II
Banned
Actually in original Islam women do have rights to own property and to divorce. Some puritanical ulemas actually got jailed for arguing that women have the right to divorce. But Islam, like other religions, could hardly escaped from bendings....
Wome can get inheritance in Islam, but certainly it's quite hard. OTOH, a woman's income, whether married or not, is basically her own wealth, while a married man's income is mostly his family's property....
I never said that women didn't in Islamic societies, there's little doubt that in Arabia and Indus Valley Islam served as liberating force for womens, whom stopped being de facto property with the spread of Islam. But what I said was that while it served as a liberating force there. Other places in the world was just as or moreso "pro-women", and Islam had little influence on the spread on women rights in the west.