Nazira Zeineddine: the girl and the shaykhs

Abstract For over forty years discussion and debate about the hijab had raged around Muslim Arab world, pitted conservatives against reformists within a political context shaped by European colonialism. In 1927 Syrian shaykhs announced that women must cover their faces. Women took to streets, nineteen-year-old Druze woman from Beirut bourgeoisie her desk. Quoting Islamic scriptures contemporary religious secular authorities on almost every page, Nazira Zeineddine wrote four hundred pages harm society of covering women’s Within few months she published Unveiling Veiling. The book, first detail rights in Islam, was an attack who presumed order faces, manipulated interpretations Qur’an hadiths with sole goal empowering men. this essay, I will provide overview Nazira’s hermeneutics my hypotheses for why writings remained virtually unknown until end 20th century.