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Is Hijab-Wearing Alien or Indigenous to South Asian Culture?
By Shafi Md Mostofa
The rising influence of Saudi Arabia’s puritanical Wahabi version of Islam is an important reason for a growing number of South Asian Muslim women wearing the headscarf.