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MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT ISLAM AND WOMEN'S EDUCATION: LESSONS FROM THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN (IRI)

Women in Muslim countries are a curiosity for the Western world. As far back as the early 1900s, those traveling and studying the Islamic world offered different insights into the lives of women. However, Western conjecture concerning the role of women in the Muslim world has often been misunderstood and misrepresented. The veil is touted as a symbol of their bondage to a patriarchal world and their distance to foreigners, particularly males, is often interpreted as a sign of their subservience. Despite many Muslim feminists' attempts to correct such images, the idea that women in the Muslim world are degraded persists in the Western world. In this article, I will use the case of the ...

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