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Randi Polizzotto
Exam 2 Review Sheet
 Women in Islam
o The scriptural basis for veiling
 Quranic Sources for the Practice of Veiling
 Quran 24:30-31: Modesty (Men and Women)
o Instructions for both men and women to conduct
themselves with modesty
o For men: subdue eyes and not stare at women and
maintain chastity
o For women: lower gaze and guard modesty-should
not display beauty and ornaments except what is
apparent-draw head coverings over bosoms and not
display beauty except to husbands, fathers,
husband’s fathers, sons, brothers, small children
with no sense of shame of sex-not strike feet to
draw attention
 Quran 33:53: Curtain/Barrier
o Rules that outsiders should follow when interacting
with prophet and insiders as they interact with
prophet
o Privilege and status for prophet and his wife-
practice of seclusion-elite status
o Do not enter home unless permission-do not force
invitation-when finish eating you shall leave-do not
engage in lengthy conversation (hurting him)-if you
have to ask wife something, ask from behind a
barrier-cannot marry her after
o To provide domestic comfort and privacy for female
elite of Islam
 First beginnings of exclusion or restrictive
behaviors being linked with privilege
 Quran 33:59: Mantle/Cloak Verse
o Refers to when Muslims are going to be traveling
abroad
o Compound verses 24 and 33 but governs behavior
outside of home and applies to all women not just
prophets wife
o Women should cover themselves so they can be
identified as free women when abroad-identified as
not slaved so not molested in streets
o Applying rules to what already have-not new mode
of dress
 Two Hadith: (used to establish doctrine of custom)
 Wedding of Zeynab
o Supports practice of seclusion, veils

o Guests overstaying welcome –want more contact
with prophet
o Wanted to guard Zeynab’s modesty-prophets pulls
curtain and says you can address us through the
curtain
o Occasion of the screen Supports practice of
seclusion, veils or curtain
 Asma’s thin clothing
o Cannot display parts of body after menstruation
except eyes and hands
o Three dominant voices in contemporary inter-Islamic debate
 Modernists
 Distinguish Pristine faith and practice of prophet and first
community of believers and difference between later
communities
 Later manifestations in Islam resulted from tradition
outside Arabia
o Damaging of culturation-modifcation based on
location it travels to
 Seek to derive systems as originally practiced
 Believe in individual interpretation of scripture
 Original values to modern context
 Legal reform or many of the Muslim laws
o Separate original laws from medieval formations
 Conservatives/Traditionalists
 View Islam as inheritance balance of system of faith and
action
o Based and sanctioned by scripture and interpretation
of scripture comes through authority of community
consensus
 Not advocating personal interpretation
 Tradition and lineage
 Stand against modernity and Western culture contamination
 Stabilize past traditions
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