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Henna has been an essential part of women's traditional body art in many North Indian communities. In recent decades, professional henna artists have expanded their businesses to offer "walk-in" service along the sidewalks of urban market areas in addition to private at-home boo…

Henna, a decorative dye, is applied to women's hands and feet at religiously significant occasions throughout North Africa--yet only in Morocco does this feminine art symbolize a nationalized, tolerant Islam. How and why does a body adornment dismissed by scholars as merely "cos…

Henna, a semi-permanent vegetable dye, is used in many contexts in Morocco, as in other Muslim societies. The hadith document the use of henna to relieve arthritic pain, and as a dye used by men to color the hair and beard, and by women to stain their hands and feet. This associ…