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This essay will discuss the concept of the veil that the Muslim woman uses vis-à-vis Randa Abdel Fattah’s novel Does My Head Look Big In This? (2006). It is an Australian novel published by Pan MacMillan, that won the Australian Book Industry Award and Australian Book of The Year Award for older children. The story is about a sixteen-year-old Muslim girl who lives in Australia with her parents and decides to put on the veil. It depicts her experience with her family and friends and how the decision affects her personal and public life. The novel will be discussed via excerpts from the Al-Quran in which there are the commands of Allah on Muslim women to don the hijab or headscarf. The sayings of the prophet Muhamad (pbuh), which are called the hadith, will also be used in order to discuss the concept of hijab or the veil as presented in the novel. The discussion will reveal and encompass more than the idea of the Muslim woman’s veil. It will also deliberate on her day to day life and public sphere with regards to the Islamic doctrines and compare and contrast them with the Muslim woman that is presented in the novel.
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To Cite this Article: Ali, H. M. (2021). The Veil in Islam and Randa Abdel-Fattah’s Does My Head Look Big in This? International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 11(3), 708-721.
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