This study of female power in pre-Islamic Arabia, its influence over male prophecy and its wider legacy, focuses on three women and the prophets they supported: empress Zenobia (c.240–274) and Paul of Samosata; queen Mavia (d.425) and Moses of Sinai; and Khadijah and Muhammad. El-Badawi examines how these women were able to rule independently, make war and conduct trade, and describes the eclipse of their power by men in church hierarchies and Islamic law.
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