Our knowledge of women’s place in pre-Islamic Arab society is limited, but the Quran evidently called for some improvements. It condemned, for instance, the live burial of unwanted newborn girls ...

She was executed soon thereafter. "Hamara time khatam ho gaya, papa. Unhon ne hummey dossrey kamrey mein shift kar diya hai. Time nahi hai hamarey paas (my time is over. They (prison authorities ...