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The Kerala Purdah Circular and the Fight Over Who Gets to Interpret the Koran

The Samastha Kerala Jamiyyathul Ulama, headed by Kanthapuram A.P. Aboobacker Musliar, issued a circular directing halls and madrasas to bar women from sharing public spaces with unrelated men during religious events, citing Koran 33:33. A rebuttal published in The Hindu argues the verse was addressed specifically to the Prophet's wives and cites the historical roles of Hazrat Khadija and Hazrat Aisha as counter-evidence. The…