Muslim Without Borders

Details: Written by: Hayat Alyaqout; Category: MUSLIMS WITHOUT BORDERS; Published: 01 March 2005; Hits: 13416

In this series, Hayat Alyaqout scrutinises the hijab and touches upon several themes such as the religious authenticity of the hijab, the overlap between the hijab as a religious practise and the hijab as a social practise, how men have their own hijab too, and the philosophy of the hijab in relation to the social notion of beauty.

In the first part, she talks about the four main challenges raised against the authenticity of hijab in Islam and refutes them.

Details: Written by: Hayat Alyaqout; Category: MUSLIMS WITHOUT BORDERS; Published: 01 February 2005; Hits: 11047

If you hear praising of Allah and prophet Mohammad (PBUH) on a TV channel that airs nothing but almost-nude video clips that are moreover inflicted with the single leit motif of “I love her, she loves me, and her she-camel loves my he-camel!” as expressed by an old Arab poet, then this cannot be construed save under one of these three possibilities:

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Muslim Without Borders

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