{"id":90118,"date":"2019-06-10T14:48:38","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T21:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=90118"},"modified":"2019-06-10T14:48:38","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T21:48:38","slug":"prince-salman-recommends-decent-and-respectful-attire-not-abaya-or-niqab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/06\/10\/prince-salman-recommends-decent-and-respectful-attire-not-abaya-or-niqab\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Salman recommends \u201cdecent and respectful attire\u201d not abaya or niqab"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Riyadh, June 10 (Reuters): Women in Saudi Arabia need not wear headcover or the black abaya \u2014 the loose-fitting, full-length robes symbolic of Islamic piety \u2014 as long as their attire is decent and respectful\u201d, the kingdom\u2019s reform-minded crown prince said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the ascent to power of young Prince Mohammad Bin Salman, the country has seen an expansion in women\u2019s rights including a decision to allow women to attend mixed public sporting events and the right to drive cars from this summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The changes have been hailed as proof of a new progressive trend towards modernisation in the traditionally conservative country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The laws are very clear and stipulated in the laws of sharia (Islamic law): that women wear decent, respectful clothing, like men,\u201d Mohammad said in an interview with CBS television aired late on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This, however, does not particularly specify a black abaya or a black head cover. The decision is entirely left for women to decide what type of decent and respectful attire she chooses to wear.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A senior cleric said last month that women should dress modestly, but this did not necessitate wearing the abaya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It remains unclear if these statements signal a change in the enforcement of women\u2019s dress code in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saudi Arabia has no written legal code to go with the texts making up sharia, and police and judiciary have long enforced a strict dress code requiring Saudi women to wear abayas and in many cases to cover their hair and faces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the country has witnessed a bold new climate of social freedoms with the rise of the 32-year-old crown prince to power after decades of elderly rulers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saudi women have started wearing more colorful abayas in recent years, the light blues and pinks in stark contrast with the traditional black.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Open abayas over long skirts or jeans are also becoming more common in some parts of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On March 8, a group of women in the Saudi city of Jeddah marked International Women\u2019s Day by exercising one of their newly acquired freedoms: the right to go for a jog, paying no heed to bemused onlookers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Riyadh, June 10 (Reuters): Women in Saudi Arabia need not wear headcover or the black abaya \u2014 the loose-fitting, full-length robes symbolic of Islamic piety \u2014 as long as their attire is decent and respectful\u201d, the kingdom\u2019s reform-minded crown prince said. With the ascent to power of young Prince Mohammad Bin Salman, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}