Archive for April 10th, 2007
underneath this screen lay a potentially lethal femininity
and tell the believing women to lower their gaze and be modest, and to display of their adornment only that which is apparent, and to draw their veils over their bosoms, and not to reveal their adornment save to their own husbands or fathers or husbands’ fathers, or their sons or their husbands’ sons, or their brothers or their brothers’ sons or sisters’ sons, or their women, or their slaves, or male attendants who lack vigour, or children who know naught of women’s nakedness. And let them not stamp their feet so as to reveal what they hide of their adornment. And turn unto Allah together, O believers, in order that ye may succeed. (Quran, 24:31)
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flypaper lead us to this great read: the urbane uniform and ghetto hijab.
World Turban Day
(Henri Matisse. Laurette in a White Turban. 1916.)
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Mark your calendars:
April 13 is World Turban Day
