Qur'anic Verse

Al-Ahzab 33:59

"O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to bring down over themselves [part] of their outer garments [jilbab]. That is more suitable that they will be known and not be abused/harmed. And God is ever Forgiving, Merciful."

Revert Way rendering, 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-Ahzab 33:59

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