The Historical Development of Women's Law-abiding Behaviour in Traditional Islamic Law - Two Portraits of Hind bint Utbah

Abstract

Hind bint Utbah, as the mother of the first Umayyad ruler, Mu'awiya, embodies the ideal of a Muslim woman in Islamic law. Yet her person hides contradictions, as in legal sources, such as the hadiths, she appears not only with this face, but also as her own legal counterpoint as a jāhiliyyah woman. The two figures always appear separated from each other, in different stories, not compared to each other, symbolizing the distance between pre-Islamic barbarism and the social relations regulated by Islam. This is of paramount importance in the field of law-abiding, as the constant presence and separation of the contrast places worlds that are historically distant into the present, since far from the rule of Islamic law, the world of Jāhiliyyah still exist - according to Islamic principles. This serves as a guide for Muslim women in the individual's internal struggle, in the true, voluntary and internal realization of following the law, so that they can integrate their entire personality into the social and moral order regulated by Islamic law through the archetype of the Muslim woman in accordance with the teachings of the Quran