Kazakhstan is prohibiting people from wearing clothing in public that obscures the face and impedes facial recognition, ...

In studying how Muslim women dress for over a decade, I realized a deeper understanding of Muslim women’s clothing can challenge popular stereotypes about Islam. Here are three takeaways. 1.

Pious fashion in Iran is highly regulated. Since shortly after the Islamic Revolution of 1979, women in the country have been legally required to wear hijab, or clothing that conforms with sharia ...

Indeed, the main message in her book, "Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress," is quite basic: Fashion among Muslim women, whether they are fully cloaked in a chador or wearing an Alexander ...

The “Contemporary Muslim Fashions” exhibit at NYC’s Cooper Hewitt Museum showcases the rise of modest attire in mainstream fashion—a clothing market now worth nearly $400 billion.

UPDATE: Read our Q&A with the author of the Univ. of Michigan study for more information on survey methods and to see how responses differed by gender, age, education and religion. An important issue ...

In studying how Muslim women dress for over a decade, I realised a deeper understanding of Muslim women’s clothing can challenge popular stereotypes about Islam. Here are three takeaways. 1.

But in terms of attitude toward women’s freedom of choice in clothing, it’s significantly more freethinking than some of its neighbors, a survey of seven Muslim-majority countries suggests.

Frida Ghitis says she is one of many Muslim women fighting for their rights. ... Government figures for 2008 said 43,000 women were arrested for clothing-related offenses in the capital alone.

While he deliberates over how to accessorize with purple every morning, pop star Prince says burqa-wearing Islamic women are lucky they don't have to worry about making such choices.

The issue of how women should dress in the Middle East has often been a contentious one, and now a recent Pew report, based on a survey conducted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for ...