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Circumcision of males; a natural practice according to the jurists and a confirmed custom in the law and in custom, its age and forms of celebration vary between countries. {¹}

The social condition of the Arabs before Islam

al-Raheeq al-Makhtum's picture of Jahili society: the high standing of women among the nobility and the mixing of the other classes, the four Jahili forms of marriage in Aisha's report, unlimited polygamy, marrying two sisters and a father's widow, divorce in men's hands, widespread fornication, treatment of children from tenderness to burial alive, tribal asabiyya and the maxim 'help your brother, wronging or wronged', the disjointed relations between tribes, and the sacred months as their mercy; the author judges the social condition to have been at its lowest.

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The social condition of the Arabs before Islam