In regard to the relationship between Islam and women's rights, which of the following is the most valid statement?

A. There is no longer a significant difference in ideas about female roles among the peoples of the West and the Arab world.
B. Traditional attitudes have been re-established only in Iran.
C. Saudi Arabia has been the most conservative country in the Middle East in this matter.
D. Early modernists viewed the wearing of the veil and the practice of polygamy as purely Islamic.
E. Islamic rule produced a curtailing of women's rights in early twentieth-century Turkey.


Answer: C

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