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The keenly observed essays in Critical Muslim: Beauty in Islam turn conventional ideas of beauty on their head. From the Qur’an and the Beautiful Divine Names to racism and the beauty industry, politics of fashion to calligraphy, plastic surgery and female wrestling, Muslim beauty contests to the male and female gaze, these are voices that grapple with an urgent and compelling notion.
The keenly observed essays in Critical Muslim: Beauty in Islam turn conventional ideas of beauty on their head. From the Qur’an and the Beautiful Divine Names to racism and the beauty industry, politics of fashion to calligraphy, plastic surgery and female wrestling, Muslim beauty contests to the male and female gaze, these are voices that grapple with an urgent and compelling notion.