Islamic Fashion

Niquel Johnson paid for three drinks in Philadelphia on Sunday, and in typical Starbucks fashion, an employee asked for his name. Johnson, 40, told them "Aziz," his Islamic name pronounced ah-zeez. He has used it for 25 years - and "countless" times at that particular store. The employee wrote his name as "ISIS" - the acronym for the Islamic terror...

Hairdressers in Pakistan's conservative northwest have announced a ban in their shops on "fashionable" beards, saying trendy facial hair violates Islamic law.

Sahara Knite was brought up in an Islamic environment with her parents moving to London from India in 1960. However, she quit living life as an orthodox Muslim and began working in the fashion industry and making adult movie

Women in Malaysia, long seen as a moderate Islamic nation, have been denied entry to government buildings on the grounds their skirts were too revealing, fanning fears of growing conservatism in a country with large non-Muslim minorities.

For much of Iraq's youth, sporting blingy makeup, slicked-up hair and skintight jeans is just part of living the teenage dream. But for their elders, it's a nightmare. A new culture rift is emerging in Iraq, as young women replace shapeless cover-ups with ankle-baring skirts and tight blouses, while men strut around in revealing slacks and spiky h...

Islamic fashion need not be dreary, that's the message of this collection of Islamic fashions in Tehran. And it's images like this that the government hopes will show young people that clothing doesn't have to be revealing to be chic. Since the Iranian Revolution in 1979, the Islamic regime has required all women to wear the Hijab (Islamic dress co...

Niquel Johnson paid for three drinks in Philadelphia on Sunday, and in typical Starbucks fashion, an employee asked for his name. Johnson, 40, told them "Aziz," his Islamic name pronounced ah-zeez. He has used it for 25 years - and "countless" times at that particular store. The employee wrote his name as "ISIS" - the acronym for the Islamic terror...

Hairdressers in Pakistan's conservative northwest have announced a ban in their shops on "fashionable" beards, saying trendy facial hair violates Islamic law.

Sahara Knite was brought up in an Islamic environment with her parents moving to London from India in 1960. However, she quit living life as an orthodox Muslim and began working in the fashion industry and making adult movie

Women in Malaysia, long seen as a moderate Islamic nation, have been denied entry to government buildings on the grounds their skirts were too revealing, fanning fears of growing conservatism in a country with large non-Muslim minorities.

For much of Iraq's youth, sporting blingy makeup, slicked-up hair and skintight jeans is just part of living the teenage dream. But for their elders, it's a nightmare. A new culture rift is emerging in Iraq, as young women replace shapeless cover-ups with ankle-baring skirts and tight blouses, while men strut around in revealing slacks and spiky h...

Islamic fashion need not be dreary, that's the message of this collection of Islamic fashions in Tehran. And it's images like this that the government hopes will show young people that clothing doesn't have to be revealing to be chic. Since the Iranian Revolution in 1979, the Islamic regime has required all women to wear the Hijab (Islamic dress co...