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Section sizes

Section size for Women in Islam (105 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	5,308	5,308
Sources of law	1,180	8,140
Primary	3,583	4,500
Al-Nisa'	917	917
Secondary	2,460	2,460
Gender roles	7,720	47,307
Dress code	10,943	19,680
Clothing materials	168	1,874
Silk	1,706	1,706
Public versus private appearance	2,540	2,540
Religious objections to the modern ḥijāb	1,996	1,996
Effect of globalization on Muslim women's couture	2,327	2,327
Family	736	3,991
Pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding	1,938	1,938
Motherhood	1,317	1,317
Gender segregation	9,562	9,562
Salah	3,253	3,253
Transport restrictions	29	3,101
1990–2017 Saudi ban on women driving	3,072	3,072
Female education	627	29,122
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	16,019
History	5,893	5,893
Modern era	7,531	7,531
Financial and legal matters	4,740	59,202
Financial and legal agency	35	2,676
The classical position	2,641	2,641
Property rights	5,586	5,586
Economic equity	1,491	1,491
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	22,587	22,587
Love	656	11,751
Romantic love	5,804	5,804
Love of women	5,291	5,291
Beauty	1,528	3,120
Female beauty	1,592	1,592
Marriage	65	76,686
Legal framework	3,973	3,973
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	5,489	5,489
Forbidden marriages	2,367	2,367
Age of marriage	4,626	4,626
Interfaith marriages and women	6,521	6,521
Behavior and rights within marriage	6,244	6,244
Sexuality	57	29,372
General parameters	1,157	1,157
Sexual satisfaction and frequency of intercourse	1,374	1,374
Foreplay	1,299	1,299
Simultaneous orgasms	6,467	6,467
Female genital mutilation	1,202	1,202
The classical position	1,981	1,981
Islamic perspectives on FGM	4,924	4,924
Initiatives to end FGM in the OIC	3,718	3,718
Recorded prevalence of FGM in the OIC	875	875
Contraception	2,810	6,318
Female infanticide	3,508	3,508
Divorce	4,483	6,336
Obligations during divorce	1,853	1,853
Menstruation	2,587	2,587
Shrines and mosques	1,324	14,664
The Virgin Mary	5,857	5,857
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	1,586	1,586
Religious life	7,122	8,879
Sufi female mystics	905	905
Current female religious scholars	852	852
Politics	3,360	25,267
Female heads of state in Muslim-majority countries during the modern era	4,284	4,284
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	4,846
Islamic Solidarity Games	1,586	1,586
Comparison with other religions	3,489	11,672
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	18,997
Saints, scholars, and spiritual teachers	4,546	4,546
Female converts to Islam	12,729	14,421
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	1,788	1,788
Total	360,174	360,174

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