Qur'anic Verse

An-Nur 24:30-31

"Tell the believing men to lower their gaze and guard their private parts... And tell the believing women to lower their gaze and guard their private parts and not expose their adornment except that which [ordinarily] appears thereof, and to draw their khimar [head-covering] over their bosoms..." (condensed)

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

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Research Paper
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.

An-Nur 24:30-31

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