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Hair: An Islamic Gendered Limit

From mediaeval times, hair has played a crucial role in dictating the boundaries of gender and piety in Islamic societies. In the Sharia, growing a beard was considered a norm that implied piety, masculinity, and submission to God’s creation (by not changing the beard’s natural growth). Naturally, pious Muslim men were supposed to observe this…

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