 Complete the following phrase:  Women in the pre-Roman Arabian kingdom of Nabataea were independent legal persons able to sign contracts in their own name. In Nabataea women were free to conduct legal contracts in their own name with no male guardian, unlike in Greek and Roman law, and in Saudi Arabia where the guardian is central to the clerics idea of a moral public sphere. The Wahhabi interpretation of sharia requires a muhrim  father, husband, brother or son  to accompany women in public, allow them to travel and attest their legal contracts. In the late twentieth century, after the 