Did you know the first ‘minister of commerce’ in Islam was a woman?
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Channel: Al Arabiya English · 2018 · News & Politics
Meet the first ‘minister of commerce’ in the history of Islam Shifa al-Adawi was the first woman to manage markets during the reign of Caliph Umar ibn Khattab __________________________________________________________________ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alarabiya.english Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlArabiya_Eng Follow us on Instagram: https://twitter.com/AlArabiya_Eng Like us on Google+: https://goo.gl/L5Nqcx Al Arabiya English website: https://english.alarabiya.net/ Subscribe to our Youtube channel: https://goo.gl/fQ0RkI __ The English site of the Arab world's leading news channel
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