Qur'anic Verse

Al-Ahzab 33:35

"Indeed, the Muslim men and Muslim women, the believing men and believing women... [a long list of paired masculine and feminine virtues, concluding] for them God has prepared forgiveness and a great reward." (condensed; the paradigm verse for moral and spiritual equivalence between men and women.)

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.

Al-Ahzab 33:35

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