Articles on Wearing Hijab

Hijab no bar to track success

In an age when Muslim women come under increasing scrutiny for wearing head-covering scarves, Bahrain's Ruqaya Al Ghasara has proved that a hijab is no hindrance to sprinting round a running track.

Ghasara, who won bronze in the 100m Saturday after a false start, made sure of gold in Monday's Asian Games 200m, producing a gutsy final 10 meters to clinch the race in 23.19sec.

Posted in ME Times - Click here to read the article

Tips for Beginning to Wear Hijab

One of the most difficult decisions many Muslim sisters face is the decision to start wearing hijab. This is certainly true for reverts, but may also be true for sisters whose families or even whose cultures are not particularly observant. As a revert myself, I have been through the whole thing. I would like to offer some advice that I hope inshallah will be helpful to sisters who are considering wearing hijab but find that something is holding them back.

Posted in Al-Muhajabah- Click here to read

Attack on hijab sparks fury in Egypt

The Islamic headscarf is more and more popular - part religiosity, part fashion, part respectability. In Cairo’s fashionable shopping malls, girls can be seen in skin tight jeans, clinging lycra tops and colourful headscarves.

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Hijab: “An entrenched law in the Quran, or a cultural practice?”

I'm curious about what the Qur'an has to say about women and the Hijab. Having heard an almost equal number of Muslim women speak for and against the Hijab in the media, I do not deny it is a personal choice, and as such a 'right' to don the headscarf. However, what is its position in Islam? Is it an entrenched law in the Quran that women don the Hijab, or is it a cultural practice (seeing that there are variations to the headscarves worn by Muslim women in different regions of the world, and some professing Muslims choose not to wear it)?

Posted in Al-Jazeera - Click here to read

Uncovering the hijab

For Melody Khalifa, Rutgers College senior and co-secretary of the Islamic Society of Rutgers University, the Quran is a key guide to how she lives her life as a Muslim woman.

The Quran - the sacred text of Islam - is revered as the word of God and was dictated to Muhammad by the archangel Gabriel, according to Islamic belief.

Because of her belief in God, or Allah, Khalifa, like many other Muslim students at Rutgers, wears the hijab.

Hijab is another name for the headscarf worn by Muslim women to "guard their modesty," according to the Quran.

Posted in daily Targum- Click here to read

Jews defending the right to wear hijab

A row over women's rights to wear headscarves has broken out again in France - but this time supporters of the right of Muslim girls to cover their head in school have a new and unusual champion.

Laurent Levy is the father of two teenagers - Lila, 18, and Alma, 16 - who last week were barred from the Henri Wallon lycee in the northern Paris suburb of Aubervilliers.

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Defending the right to keep wearing hijab

The Assembly for the Protection of the Hijab said wearing the traditional Islamic scarf was a duty and compromising was giving in to violence.

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