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[quote]I only mentioned the movie as an example. You can find out the details of how the Arab women used to cover their heads in the books of history. Karen Armstrong writes in her book, Islam A Short History: "The Quran prescribes some degree of segregation and veiling for the Prophet's wives, but there is nothing in the Quran that requires the veiling of all women or their seclusion in the separate part of the house. These customs were adopted some three or four generations after the Prophet's death. Muslims at that time were copying the Greek Christians of Byzantium, who had long veiled and segregated their women in this manner; they also appropriated some of their Christian misogyny... The women of the first ummah in Madina took full part in its public life, and some, according to Arab custom, fought alongside the men in battle. They did not seem to have experienced Islam as an oppressive religion, though later, as happened in Christianity, men would hijack the faith and bring it into line with the prevailing patriarchy." (P. 14) Edited by: JunaidHasan on Tuesday, July 25, 2006 3:13 PM[/quote]
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