While we celebrate all of the women of our past and present, MIIM Designs chooses today to highlight Khadija, who as a woman entrepreneur in pre-Islamic Arabia exemplifies the empowerment of women more than a century before the concept of gender equality even existed. A talented merchant, Khadija inherited both her father’s trade business and his business acumen. It is related that when the Quraysh tribe’s caravans embarked upon their extended trade journeys, Khadija’s caravan equaled the sum of all of the other caravans of the Quraysh combined. In fact, among her titles, Khadija was known as “Amīrat-Quraysh”, or the Princess of the Quraysh. Her talent and expertise caused many highly respected Arabian men to seek her hand in marriage.