Quiet Revolution

A probing study of the veil''s recent return—from one of the world''s foremost authorities on Muslim women—that reaches surprising conclusions about contemporary Islam''s place in the West todayIn Cairo in the 1940s, Leila Ahmed was raised by a generation of women who never dressed in the veils and headscarves their mothers and grandmothers had worn. To them, these coverings seemed irrelevant to b...