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A quiet revolution the veil's resurgence, from the Middle East to America

In Cairo in the 1940s, Leila Ahmed was raised by a generation of women who never dressed in the veils and headscarves their mothers and grandmothers had worn. To them, these coverings seemed irrelevant to both modern life and Islamic piety. Today, however, the majority of Muslim women throughout the...

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Main Author:	Ahmed, Leila (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven Yale University Press c2011
Subjects:	Hijab (Islamic clothing) > Middle East Hijab (Islamic clothing) > United States Veils > Middle East Muslim women > Clothing > Middle East Muslim women > Clothing > United States
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