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  2. Women in pre-Islamic Arabia - Wikipedia

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    While the general population of women in pre-Islamic Arabia did not have many rights, upper-class women had more. Many became 'naditum', or priestesses, which would in turn give them even more rights. These women were able to own and inherit property. In addition, the naditum were able to play an active role in the economic life of their ...

  3. Women in the Arab world - Wikipedia

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    Women in oil-rich Gulf countries have made some of the biggest educational leaps in recent decades. Compared to women in oil-rich Saudi Arabia, young Muslim women in Mali have shown significantly fewer years of schooling. [83] In Arab countries, the first modern schools were opened in Egypt (1829), Lebanon (1835) and Iraq (1898). [84]

  4. Hejazi turban - Wikipedia

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    The Hejazi turban (Arabic: العِمامة الحِجازيّة, ʾimāmah IPA: ʕi.maː.mah), also spelled Hijazi turban, is a type of the turban headdress native to the region of Hejaz in modern-day western Saudi Arabia. It is but one version of Arabian turbans that have been worn in the Arabian Peninsula from the pre-Islamic era to the ...

  5. Early social changes under Islam - Wikipedia

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    While the art historian Jonathan Bloom believes that the Qur'an does not require women to wear veils, stating that instead, it was a social habit picked up with the expansion of Islam, [35] the vast majority of Islamic scholars disagree, [36] interpreting the Qur'anic verses 24:31 [Quran 24:31] and 33:59 [Quran 33:59] as requiring female modest ...

  6. Pre-Islamic Arabia - Wikipedia

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    Pre-Islamic Arabia is the Arabian Peninsula and its northern extension in the Syrian Desert before the rise of Islam. This is consistent with how contemporaries used the term Arabia or where they said Arabs lived, which was not limited to the peninsula. [1] Pre-Islamic Arabia included both nomadic and settled populations.

  7. How Women’s Sports Uniforms Became So Controversial, Long ...

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    Female athletes started wearing what are now known as “buns” (which look like bathing suit bottoms) and crop tops or sports bras. The uniform has remained a popular choice to this day.

  8. Kashf-e hijab - Wikipedia

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    The women of the Iranian women's movement largely consisted of educated elite women positive to unveiling. This image of the Board of Governors of the women's organization Jam'iyat-e Nesvan-e Vatankhah, Tehran, is dated to 1922–1932; before the Kashf-e hijab reform in 1936. The unveiling was met with different opinions within Iran.

  9. Headscarves, PDA, and alcohol: What to know about visiting ...

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    All in the timing. Mecca, Islam’s holiest city, is here in Saudi Arabia. Muslims are required to make the hajj, or religious pilgrimage to the city’s holiest sites, at least once in their ...