A branch of the opposition Islamic Renaissance Party (IRP) in the southern Tajik city of Kulob has complained that authorities are pressuring women who wear the hijab, the Islamic head scarf.

COMMERCE CITY, Colo. — A Colorado city is promising to revise its swimsuit rules after a Muslim woman was turned away from its recreation center pool for wearing an Islamic dress over a shirt ...

A study conducted by the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research asked people in seven countries with Muslim-majorities what style of dress is appropriate for women in public.

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 ...

A recent Pew report, based on a survey conducted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research from 2011 to 2013 in seven majority-Muslim nations, reveals just how widely ...

NICE, France—Nawel Moumen, a 13-year-old French Muslim, was taken aside last spring by the dean of her middle school. The robe-like dress she had on was inappropriate, Moumen recalled the dean ...

In a blog post last week, we wrote about the survey findings from seven Muslim-majority countries about women’s style of dress by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research.The post ...

All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger.. Wearing the Qamis (long shirt) and ...

The government needs to take a stronger stance in preventing the imposition of dress codes on Muslim women, a think tank has said.. A new report by Policy Exchange discusses how Islamist groups ...

Iranian police say they will maintain strict punishments for women if they do not comply with the Islamic dress code, even after the election of moderate President Masoud Pezeshkian. "Nothing will ...