While men sometimes have covered their heads for prayer (think Jewish yarmulkes), the cultural requirement for women to cover their heads has often extended not just to prayer and worship but to ...

Therefore, a woman has to cover her hair in the prayer. The Prophet said: “Allah does not accept the prayer of a pubescent woman unless she is wearing a head covering (Khimar).” If a woman covers her ...

(Many Sufi Muslims believe that both men and women should cover their heads. In India and Pakistan, for instance, men usually wear skullcaps during ritual prayer.) So, many women who do not wear ...

While some rabbinic authorities were willing to recognize that dat yehudit no longer included head covering for married women, the majority of rabbinic opinion stood firm on the matter.

One of the most prevalent informal explanations given for the halachic mandate of head covering is that, after the wedding ceremony, a woman’s hair becomes a type of nakedness, ervah ...