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Section sizes

Section size for Women in Islam (105 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	5,187	5,187
Sources of law	1,171	8,174
Primary	3,592	4,504
Al-Nisa'	912	912
Secondary	2,499	2,499
Gender roles	6,445	45,504
Dress code	10,443	19,185
Clothing materials	168	1,875
Silk	1,707	1,707
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	9,552	9,552
Salah	3,215	3,215
Transport restrictions	29	3,112
1990–2017 Saudi ban on women driving	3,083	3,083
Female education	627	28,618
The classical position	3,460	3,460
History of women's education	5,995	5,995
Women as educators	2,063	2,063
Traveling for knowledge	1,346	1,346
Famous muhaddithat	32	1,833
Zaynab bint al-Kamal	1,801	1,801
Current situation	13,294	13,294
Female employment	2,595	16,002
History	5,868	5,868
Modern era	7,539	7,539
Financial and legal matters	4,740	59,180
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	22,580	22,580
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	75,685
Legal framework	3,975	3,975
Marriage ceremony and celebrations	1,081	1,081
Historical commonality of divorce	2,361	2,361
Polygyny	6,874	6,874
Polyandry	1,357	1,357
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	28,531
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	1,006	1,006
The classical position	1,985	1,985
Islamic perspectives on FGM	4,480	4,480
Initiatives to end FGM in the OIC	3,729	3,729
Recorded prevalence of FGM in the OIC	677	677
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	25,269
Female heads of state in Muslim-majority countries during the modern era	4,291	4,291
Female legislators in Muslim-majority countries in the 21st century	11,917	11,917
Muslim women and Islamophobia in non-Muslim majority countries	5,698	5,698
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	769	769
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	356,541	356,541

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