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Al-Dustūr published a two-page file on niqāb in Egypt. About 17 percent of Egyptian women wear niqāb. Authors of the files tried to point out the reasons behind the phenomenon.
Al-Shaymā’ ‘Abd al-Latīf reports on Jamāl al-Bannā’s book about Muslim women and the hijāb.
Members of the People’s Assembly have warned against issuing a license for female-only mosques, saying that such step would violate Sharī‘ah and Islamic teachings.
The Administrative Court has rejected a lawsuit that was filed by the Muslim convert to Christianity, Muhammad Hijāzī and has allowed Bahā’ī’s to leave the religion field empty or write "other" on their identity cards. The Egyptian press reported the two rulings and commented on the increasing...
The Muslim Brotherhood’s agenda is an attempt to establish an Islamic theocracy in Egypt in the name of civil state. The group is manipulating people and using vague language to achieve their aims.
The article presents an overview of a group calling themselves the Quranists. Dr. Jamāl al-Bannā highlights the group’s stances on certain issues, their history, and what sets them apart from other Muslims.
The widespread phenomenon of the Niqāb in Egyptian society has provoked strong reaction from many thinkers and writers, as well as from well-known European politicians, including Jack Straw, the leader of the House of Commons, who said in a recent statement that wearing the "full veil" [...
The review takes up the issue of the niqāb as Jack Straw, Leader of the House of Commons, called on Muslim women in Britain to take off their veils in workplaces, while in Egypt, the President of Hilwān University made a decision to prohibit all niqāb-wearing students from entering the...
Exchanging greetings between men and women is allowed in Islām, Shaykh al- Qaradāwī states, indicating that the voice of a woman is not cawrah. The wives of the prophet, with all the constraints imposed on them, were permitted to talk to men and to respond to their questions from behind a curtain...
The author discusses the issue of the Muslim dress code for men and women, arguing that proving the dress covers the awra, those parts of the human body that Islam has decreed should not to be revealed except to spouses and immediate family members, is indeed an Islamic costume.

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