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[quote=Anonymous]And the glove thing seems to be reverse engineering by present day fanatic Islamic "scholars" who are obsessed with female purity. Mohammed specifically forbade women from wearing gloves during pilgrimage. So today's fanatics have taken this to mean that Islamic women back in the seventh century ordinarily wore gloves. Right--in a country where temperatures reach 130 degrees and where there was no air conditioning or fans until the second half of the last century. A much more plausible explanation is that gloves were worn in some types of manual labor like weaving to protect the hands. Pilgrimage is a sacred time out from every day secular life and work and so dress associated specifically with work should not be worn. These same scholars often insist that women wear thick socks so no part of her shows--this is by extension of the glove theory. Have these people any idea how impractical this is to a nomadic person living 24/7 in a sea of sand? [/quote]
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