began to take firm root, and there was a temporary reaction in the attention paid to adornment.

(9)

(11)

(7)

In 1900 (7) hairpins began to be put to use to a great extent, and the hair was built on the architecture of the huge hat that was usually worn outside the house.

and high-heeled shoes.

In 1940 (9) taste began to settle on the styles we still love to

this day; then it developed until it became as may be seen in pictures 10, 11, and 12.

(10)

(12)

(8)

After the Great War (8) the fashion of bobbed hair returned, as it had been at the start of the women's renaissance; this fashion went together with very short skirts

A correspondent of the mag-azine al-Ithnayn asked the Grand Sheikh Mustafa Abd al-Raziq, Sheikh of al-Azhar: "What do you say to girls enrolling at al-Azhar?" He said:

The pursuit of learning at al-Azhar is nothing new for the Muslim woman; many virtuous women — especially those deprived of sight — have received instruction there in the past... Some of them continued their studies at the Ahmadi Mosque in Tanta until they reached its final stage. "And if it is not recorded that any one of them obtained this certificate, it is enough what has been set down of the genius and excellence of some of them in the various Azhari

sciences and arts — such as the accomplished woman of letters Mrs. Aisha al-Taymuriyya, who studied grammar, morphology, and prosody under two Azhari women teachers, Mrs. Fatima al-Azhariyya and Mrs. Stita al-Tablawiyya. And the day a firm desire exists among a company of our well-bred girls to study the religious sciences and the branches of culture connected with them, I shall not hesitate to open special classes for them at al-Azhar, or to establish a women's institute attached to it. Moreover, the true faith has enjoined the duty of educating the girl and furnishing her with the culture suited to her faculties; the righteous forebears took care to realize this idea, and we today are no less eager than they to discharge this weighty duty."

That in the United States there are more than one hundred magazines for women alone?

And that the most striking thing that distinguishes the United States is its women's clubs?

And that the federation of women's clubs there comprises fifteen thou-sand clubs?