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Section sizes

Section size for Women in Islam (105 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	5,277	5,277
Sources of law	1,180	8,131
Primary	3,574	4,495
Al-Nisa'	921	921
Secondary	2,456	2,456
Gender roles	7,717	47,237
Dress code	10,919	19,638
Clothing materials	168	1,865
Silk	1,697	1,697
Public versus private appearance	2,540	2,540
Religious objections to the modern ḥijāb	1,987	1,987
Effect of globalization on Muslim women's couture	2,327	2,327
Family	732	3,979
Pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding	1,938	1,938
Motherhood	1,309	1,309
Gender segregation	9,549	9,549
Salah	3,253	3,253
Transport restrictions	29	3,101
1990–2017 Saudi ban on women driving	3,072	3,072
Female education	627	29,075
The classical position	4,115	4,115
History of women's education	5,989	5,989
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	13,105	13,105
Female employment	2,587	15,988
History	5,896	5,896
Modern era	7,505	7,505
Financial and legal matters	4,729	59,148
Financial and legal agency	35	2,649
The classical position	2,614	2,614
Property rights	5,577	5,577
Economic equity	1,475	1,475
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	9,221	9,221
Domestic violence	22,597	22,597
Love	656	11,687
Romantic love	5,762	5,762
Love of women	5,269	5,269
Beauty	1,527	3,116
Female beauty	1,589	1,589
Marriage	64	76,548
Legal framework	3,946	3,946
Marriage ceremony and celebrations	1,081	1,081
Historical commonality of divorce	2,361	2,361
Polygyny	6,873	6,873
Polyandry	1,356	1,356
Endogamy	5,479	5,479
Forbidden marriages	2,381	2,381
Age of marriage	4,632	4,632
Interfaith marriages and women	6,512	6,512
Behavior and rights within marriage	6,244	6,244
Sexuality	57	29,273
General parameters	1,144	1,144
Sexual satisfaction and frequency of intercourse	1,374	1,374
Foreplay	1,299	1,299
Simultaneous orgasms	6,468	6,468
Female genital mutilation	1,202	1,202
The classical position	1,953	1,953
Islamic perspectives on FGM	4,876	4,876
Initiatives to end FGM in the OIC	3,719	3,719
Recorded prevalence of FGM in the OIC	875	875
Contraception	2,801	6,306
Female infanticide	3,505	3,505
Divorce	4,487	6,346
Obligations during divorce	1,859	1,859
Menstruation	2,587	2,587
Shrines and mosques	1,324	14,638
The Virgin Mary	5,848	5,848
Hala Sultan	1,937	1,937
Sayeda Zainab	2,354	2,354
Fātimah al-Ma'sūmah	673	673
Rabi'āh al-'Adawiyyah	933	933
Ruqayyah bint Ali	1,569	1,569
Religious life	7,125	8,884
Sufi female mystics	905	905
Current female religious scholars	854	854
Politics	3,368	25,241
Female heads of state in Muslim-majority countries during the modern era	4,275	4,275
Female legislators in Muslim-majority countries in the 21st century	11,917	11,917
Muslim women and Islamophobia in non-Muslim majority countries	5,681	5,681
Sport	3,260	4,846
Islamic Solidarity Games	1,586	1,586
Comparison with other religions	3,476	11,653
Eve's role in the Fall	2,850	2,850
The Virgin Mary	1,050	1,050
Polygamy	4,277	4,277
Notable women in Islam	30	18,997
Saints, scholars, and spiritual teachers	4,545	4,545
Female converts to Islam	12,729	14,422
Female conversion literature	1,693	1,693
Modern debate on the status of women in Islam	868	9,078
Conservatives and the Islamic movement	3,967	3,967
Liberal Islam, Islamic feminism, and other progressive criticism	4,243	4,243
See also	857	857
References	17	3,002
Citations	29	29
Sources	2,956	2,956
Further reading	1,878	1,878
External links	1,799	1,799
Total	359,667	359,667

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