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Pictures of Muslim Women Around the World
Designs in glazed tile transformed the Friday Mosque in Herat, Afghanistan, into a shimmering paradise as a woman in full Islamic attire passes by.
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Muslim Women Around the World
A tender moment is shared by a three-day old infant, eyebrows painted with kohl, and her mother. They camp with their Bedouin tribe in North Yemen near Main, known as Qarnaw when it was the capital of the Minaeans.
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The Islamic republic (in Maldives) is home to health worker Aishath Mahfooza.
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The facial veil and head covering worn by a woman on the beach at Jiddah contrast with youngsters' colorful dresses. Girls and boys are raised together until about age seven in Saudi Arabia. Most girls start wearing veil at puberty.
Dr. Hanan Ali al-Subeai examines a newborn (boy) at an Airbase Military Hospital in Dhahran.
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Motorized nomads. the Bedouin bands near Riyadh may swap their camels for pickup trucks.. but prefer desert life to a house in town.
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Muslim Women Around the World
A designer veil sports the logo of Yves St. Laurent. Most accept the veil for privacy and protection from male harassment, not as a symbol of oppression, and cling to a tradition that defies Western understanding.
Tucking loaves of French bread underarm, a boy accompanies his mother and aunt in Tinguent, Mauritania.
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Muslim Women Around the World
The family of this Tuareg woman, from Chad, once roamed the Sahel with hundreds of cattle. Drought ended their nomadic life, condemning
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them to a stingy plot of soil.
Women struggle their way to complete one of the Rites of the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca.
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Muslim Women Around the World
Conventionally dressed, a Saudi woman dresses her child in
overalls.
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Muslim Women Around the World
Pakistani bride at her wedding in traditional cultural dress.(taken by George and Claire Louden)
Beguiling reflection of her desert Rajput ancestors is this
Muslim bride of Pakistan.
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Butterflies on the wind, two young girls in flowing gowns bought for the Eid al-Fitr festivals spend a holiday hour soaring in the wind.
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Chaste beauty, captured in the gaze of this villager in Rissani, Morocco.
These pictures were scanned from National Geographic and the captions are kept the same(some shortened).
Special thanks goes to Shakir Muhammad.
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