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The term jilbāb (also jilbaab, jubbah or jilaabah) (Arabic: جِلْبَاب) refers to any long and loose-fit coat or outer garment worn by Muslim women. Wearers believe that this definition of jilbāb fulfills the Quranic choice for a hijab.
The term “tudong” or “tudung” is a Malay/Indonesian word, literally meaning the noun "cover", which is commonly translated as veil or headscarf in English.Tudong is usually used to describe the headscarf in Malaysia, while in Indonesia it is more common to call the tudong the kerudung or perhaps the jilbab.
A fragment of Sūrat an-Nisā' – a chapter of Islam's sacred text entitled 'Women' – featuring the Persian, Arabic, and Kufic scripts. Islam views men and women as equal before God, and the Quran underlines that man and woman were "created of a single soul" (4:1, [15] 39:6 [16] and elsewhere). [17]
Khawla bint al-Azwar (Arabic: خولة بنت الازور; died 639), was an Arab Muslim warrior in the service of the Rashidun Caliphate.She played a major role in the Muslim conquest of the Levant, and fought alongside her brother Dhiraar.
Hermeneutics of feminism in Islam is a system of interpreting the sacred texts of that religion, the Quran and Sunnah. Hermeneutics [ 1 ] is the theory and methodology of interpretation, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] especially of sacred texts, [ 4 ] [ 5 ] and Islamic feminism has a long history upon which to draw.
Mukhannath (مُخَنَّث; plural mukhannathun (مُخَنَّثون); "effeminate ones", "ones who resemble women") was a term used in Classical Arabic and Islamic literature to describe gender-variant people, and it has typically referred to effeminate men or people with ambiguous sexual characteristics, who appeared feminine and functioned sexually or socially in roles typically carried ...
About seven verses address the way a woman should dress when walking in public; [42] Muslims have differed as how to understand these verses; Sunni [43] [44] ^ and twelver Shia [45] scholars say hijab is mandatory, while Ismaili Shias, accounting for ~0.25% of all Muslims, believe it is not.
Safiyya was the daughter of Abd al-Muttalib ibn Hashim and Halah bint Wuhayb ibn Abd Manaf ibn Zuhrah, [2] [3]: 29 hence the full sister of Hamza and an aunt of Muhammad and Ali. [4]