She said Ms. Degauque's mother later explained that he could not bear to be in the presence of a strange non-Muslim woman.

Only non-Muslim women of Greek, Armenian or Jewish minorities were eligible for cast.

Some non-Muslim women are forced to wear a headscarf and to be accompanied by spouses or male relatives.

Allows Muslim men to marry non-Muslim yet religious women.

Some Muslim women exposed to the growth in civil rights accessible to secular or non-Muslim women have protested to strengthen their own rights within Islamic communities.

Converts to Islam from other religious groups were not uncommon, especially in cases of marriage between Muslim men and non-Muslim women.

Awrah in front of non-Muslim women is a point of debate.

Marriages between Muslim men and non-Muslim women, although not specifically prohibited by Islamic law, were also relatively uncommon.

In practice many non-Muslim women face strong economic and societal pressure to convert.

A non-Muslim woman who fails to convert also is ineligible to inherit her husband's property or to be naturalized.