Amal Al Khumaysa
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Amal Al Khumaysa (Amal Muhammad ‘Abd Allah Al Khumaysa) is a contemporary Islamic author known for her legal writings on women’s dress and jurisprudence, particularly her treatises examining textual evidences concerning the veil .
Scholarly Focus and Legal Writing
Al Khumaysa first addressed women's attire and ornamentation in her book Waqafat Musarahah li-al-Mar'ah al-Salihah ("Candid Reflections for the Pious Woman"), focusing on female dress in front of other women and unmarriageable male kin (mahrams) . Her research into the legal differences among later scholars regarding a woman’s modesty boundaries (‘awrah) and dress before non-mahram men led her to author Kashf al-Ghumma ‘an Adillat al-Hijab fi al-Kitab wa al-Sunna ("Dispelling the Obscurity Regarding the Evidences of the Veil in the Book and the Sunnah") . In this treatise, she examined scriptural proofs regarding the obligation of the facial veil and critiqued the position permitting uncovering the face advanced by the hadith scholar Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albani in his works Jilbab al-Mar'ah al-Muslimah and al-Radd al-Mufhim .
Al Khumaysa later published an abridged version of the work, Mukhtasar Kashf al-Ghumma, which was deposited at the King Fahd National Library in 1442 AH (2020–2021 CE) . Her treatise was reviewed by Sa'd ibn Turki al-Khathlan, member of the Council of Senior Scholars and head of the Saudi Jurisprudential Association .
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Mukhtasar Kashf al-Ghumma 'an Adillat al-Hijab fi al-Kitab wa al-Sunna is an Islamic legal treatise dedicated to examining textual and jurisprudential evidences regarding the obligation of the facial veil for women and critiquing the views of Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albani on the issue.
Kashf al-Ghumma ‘an Adillat al-Hijab fi al-Kitab wa al-Sunna is a treatise on Islamic jurisprudence and Quranic exegesis that defends the obligation of free Muslim women covering their faces in front of unrelated men, offering a point-by-point critique of the position permitting uncovering the face advanced by the hadith scholar Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albani.