Since the beginning of time, the relation between the sexes has been subject to heated debates and exposed to a complex proliferation of religious, psychological, and philosophical controversy. From demands of equality to essentialist understanding of sexual difference, the question has always remained crucial to the form and content of human life on earth. Arab women were not in isolation of such a debate and many Arab activist women were outspoken in their protest against what they considered unfair patriarchal cultural norms that aimed at depriving women of their freedom. On the other hand, their opponents claimed that those activists relied mainly on feminist discourse which, far from being a universal one, is rather an imported discourse that came about as a reaction to a completely different cultural and historical situation. In this context, they refer to many pressures Western women had to face and were eventually the fuel of their revolt against the status they occupied in their society. In addition, they argue that even feminist jargon, such as patriarchy and patriarchal society, is culturally bound and directly associated with the church and its organization. On the other hand, Western feminism has often been associated with colonial discourse that "devalue[s] local cultures by presuming that there is only one path for emancipating women –adopting Western models" (Abu-Lughod 14)In this sense, a need emerges for an examination of the historical circumstances that govern the status of Arab women nowadays, a status that began to take shape in the first Hijri century (the 7th century L.C). Thus, this paper will examine the degree of the freedom granted to women during the twenty three years that started with the beginning of the new religion and ended with the death of Prophet Mohamed through an analysis of collections of Hadith (prophet's saying) and some of the…