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Hijab

In Islam, the Arabic term for the seclusion of women enjoined by the Koran. It also refers to the modest, covering dress worn by Muslim women when outside their homes and at any time when they are in the presence of men not closely related to them.



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Summary: An Illinois woman who tugged at the hijab of a U.
US woman faces jail for pulling woman's hijab by Al Arabiya (Saudi Arabia)
When I referred to the Hijab [headscarf] and the Niqab in an article I wrote last month, after the Sheikh of al-Azhar had requested a veiled girl in a girls' classroom to remove her Niqab, I received a lot of letters that defended the Hijab as a religious rite, or letters that claimed that I had a problem with the Hijab, and which asked whether nudity is synonymous to progress, and so forth.
Ayoon Wa Azan (The Al-Aqsa Mosque Will Be Lost) by Dar Al Hayat, International ed. (Beirut, Lebanon)
We never see London schoolgirl Fatima, whose decision to start wearing a hijab veil at the start of an academic year throws her 17-year-old
Lifting the veil on race and friendship by The Daily Mail (London, England)
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