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What were similarties between muslim women and women in elizabethan england????? PLEASE HELP!!!?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Well, the Koran states that women should be obedient to their husbands, and this was expected of Elizabethan women also. but it was also expected of married women in most societies until the very recent past, so there was nothing out of the ordinary about elizabethan women in this respect.

    elizabethan women mixed freely in society and were not expected to cover their faces, stay out of sight of men to whom they were not related etc, so that's one big difference between Elizabethan women and women in many Muslim societies.

    And Elizabethan men were not allowed to have more than one wife, as Muslim men are allowed to.

    it really is very difficult to compare 16th century English women with modern day Muslim women, as there are many differences, and in any case laws and customs differ from one Muslim society to another. I don't think you have been asked a very sensible question, quite frankly.

  • 1 decade ago

    Well, they are / were all women.

    I suspect the teacher wants you to consider the place of women under the law or within social / cultural traditions in Elizabethan England and some particular Muslim country (Muslims live in hundreds of countries under a wide variety of laws and cultural traditions, so a wholesale comparison with women from a single time period on an isolated island would be really silly, eh).

    The links below may be helpful.

    Cheers :-)

  • Fex
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    I agree with thing above. Your teacher is not so bright to ask such a question. Just do your best, separate it by countries. Lots of work.

    Source(s): Me - I used to teach
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