172 years ago, a woman in what was then Persia publicly removed her headscarf. This woman was a scholar of Islam. Had she been a man, she would have had the rank of mujtahid, the highest rank of Islamic scholar. She was the first woman to receive such recognition for her poetry. She appeared at a meeting with other clergy without a head covering, was imprisoned for it and was ultimately executed, strangled with that same headscarf. This headscarf. A highly charged, a divisive, a meaningful, a piece of material. Today I want to give it a new meaning.
