Qur'anic Verse

Al-Baqarah 2:282

"O you who believe, when you contract a debt for a fixed term, write it down... And call to witness two witnesses from among your men; and if two men are not there, then a man and two women from among those you approve as witnesses, so that if one of the two women errs, the other can remind her." (condensed; the verse continues with detailed instruction on recording debts.)

Revert Way rendering (condensed), in the style of early public-domain English translations (cf. Pickthall 1930)

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Women in Mainstream Islam: Protection, Restriction, and the Historical Development of Religious Practice
A historical-critical review testing whether practices commonly described as Islamic requirements for women — segregation, face-veiling, travel guardianship, exclusion from mosques and public office — rest on the Qur'an itself or on later hadith, jurisprudence, dynastic custom, and regional practice.

Al-Baqarah 2:282

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Women in Mainstream Islam: Protection, Restriction, and the Historical Development of Religious Practice