Did Arab tribes have the cultural beliefs that Muhammad codified in Islam, or did he come up with the wacky, anti-woman stuff on his stuff? I always assumed that he just took what already existed, and made it the law of God, but he was so crazy, he may have just taken his own miscogenistic beliefs and made them into a religion.
The Demon mohamed in his fifties married a small child of nine years of age, Aisha, who was probably too young to have known what was happening to her, let alone have a say in the marriage and was one of nine simultaneous wives of mohamed when he died.
If Aisha was prototype of the Islamic woman, then pre-Islamic women had had superior basic rights to what Islam granted them.