Beauty

Shanon Shah goes in search of beautiful Muslims, Samia Rahman refuses to take a selfie, Doris Behrens-Abouseif reads the extensive Islamic literature on beauty, Nadia Mohd Rasidi asks ‘am I beautiful?’, Mahmoud Mostafa meditates on the Most Beautiful Names of God, Hasina Zaman contemplates a beautiful death, Jonas Otterbeck listens to ethical sounds, Irum Shehreen Ali is sick of wellness, Henry Brefo castigates high fashion, Yovanka Paquete Perdigao is horrified by skin-whitening products, Nima Nasseri checks in to an Iranian nose job clinic, Misha Monaghan is unimpressed with pious fashion, and Avaes Mohammed is enchanted with the beauty of his Sheikh.

In this issue

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    Issue 27 Beauty

    Beauty in Islam

    In no other religion does the concept of beauty play such a crucial role as in Islam. The concept of aesthetic beauty or the beauty of the form…

    Doris Behrens-Abouseif
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