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Section sizes

Section size for Women in Islam (105 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	5,390	5,390
Sources of law	1,180	8,560
Primary	3,819	4,872
Al-Nisa'	1,053	1,053
Secondary	2,508	2,508
Gender roles	7,720	47,840
Dress code	10,902	20,211
Clothing materials	168	2,442
Silk	2,274	2,274
Public versus private appearance	2,540	2,540
Religious objections to the modern ḥijāb	2,000	2,000
Effect of globalization on Muslim women's couture	2,327	2,327
Family	736	3,995
Pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding	1,938	1,938
Motherhood	1,321	1,321
Gender segregation	9,562	9,562
Salah	3,236	3,236
Transport restrictions	29	3,116
1990–2017 Saudi ban on women driving	3,087	3,087
Female education	627	29,122
The classical position	4,158	4,158
History of women's education	5,995	5,995
Women as educators	2,063	2,063
Traveling for knowledge	1,343	1,343
Famous muhaddithat	32	1,833
Zaynab bint al-Kamal	1,801	1,801
Current situation	13,103	13,103
Female employment	2,595	16,027
History	5,893	5,893
Modern era	7,539	7,539
Financial and legal matters	4,740	59,179
Financial and legal agency	35	2,646
The classical position	2,611	2,611
Property rights	5,595	5,595
Economic equity	1,497	1,497
Sexual crimes and sins	32	12,900
Zina	7,020	7,020
Qazf and Li'an	1,506	1,506
Rape	4,342	4,342
Witness of woman	9,222	9,222
Domestic violence	22,579	22,579
Love	656	11,734
Romantic love	5,795	5,795
Love of women	5,283	5,283
Beauty	1,528	3,124
Female beauty	1,596	1,596
Marriage	65	76,542
Legal framework	3,977	3,977
Marriage ceremony and celebrations	1,081	1,081
Historical commonality of divorce	2,361	2,361
Polygyny	6,895	6,895
Polyandry	1,356	1,356
Endogamy	5,493	5,493
Forbidden marriages	2,274	2,274
Age of marriage	4,626	4,626
Interfaith marriages and women	6,481	6,481
Behavior and rights within marriage	6,226	6,226
Sexuality	57	29,366
General parameters	1,161	1,161
Sexual satisfaction and frequency of intercourse	1,365	1,365
Foreplay	1,299	1,299
Simultaneous orgasms	6,461	6,461
Female genital mutilation	1,202	1,202
The classical position	1,985	1,985
Islamic perspectives on FGM	4,921	4,921
Initiatives to end FGM in the OIC	3,729	3,729
Recorded prevalence of FGM in the OIC	875	875
Contraception	2,800	6,311
Female infanticide	3,511	3,511
Divorce	4,483	6,341
Obligations during divorce	1,858	1,858
Menstruation	2,510	2,510
Shrines and mosques	1,326	14,682
The Virgin Mary	5,865	5,865
Hala Sultan	1,941	1,941
Sayeda Zainab	2,354	2,354
Fātimah al-Ma'sūmah	673	673
Rabi'āh al-'Adawiyyah	933	933
Ruqayyah bint Ali	1,590	1,590
Religious life	7,083	8,840
Sufi female mystics	905	905
Current female religious scholars	852	852
Politics	3,363	25,274
Female heads of state in Muslim-majority countries during the modern era	4,288	4,288
Female legislators in Muslim-majority countries in the 21st century	11,918	11,918
Muslim women and Islamophobia in non-Muslim majority countries	5,705	5,705
Sport	3,260	4,850
Islamic Solidarity Games	1,590	1,590
Comparison with other religions	3,493	11,676
Eve's role in the Fall	2,850	2,850
The Virgin Mary	1,050	1,050
Polygamy	4,283	4,283
Notable women in Islam	30	19,000
Saints, scholars, and spiritual teachers	4,548	4,548
Female converts to Islam	12,730	14,422
Female conversion literature	1,692	1,692
Modern debate on the status of women in Islam	864	9,072
Conservatives and the Islamic movement	3,967	3,967
Liberal Islam, Islamic feminism, and other progressive criticism	4,241	4,241
See also	872	872
References	17	3,002
Citations	29	29
Sources	2,956	2,956
Further reading	1,873	1,873
External links	1,790	1,790
Total	360,959	360,959

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