Which of the following statements concerning women during the Abbasid era is most accurate?
A) No Islamic women engaged in labor.
B) Women often married at puberty, set at age nine.
C) Abbasid women had vastly greater freedom than did women in the first century of Islam.
D) Women often practiced polygamy.
Ans: B) Women often married at puberty, set at age nine.
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