He is enforcing strict dress rules - no "do-rags," no chains worn outside the shirt, no hats - and he frequently walks the halls himself, delivering impromptu lectures to students about the importance of a high school diploma in a silky preacher's voice.

In order to ease the hijab "modest dress" rules, they engage in a nikah al-Mut'ah, specifying in the marriage contract that no physical contact is allowed.

Christian groups took up her cause, but she lost her court claims for compensation, as it became apparent that BA's rules were about uniform, not religious policy (although BA did review its dress rules subsequently).

Royal Ascot: new dress rules for 2012 - in pictures 4.

Same lack of a dress rule applies to the teachers also.

The book arouses readers' sympathy for policewomen who must enforce the strict social code of Islam and who are widely resented in Iran for harassing women who deviate from Muslim dress rules.

A dress shoes-only rule was scrapped in early 2012 in favor of the more comfortable sneakers, and navy school hoodies were created to be worn on campus.

"You can't show any skin," Ms. Ibrahim, 23, said during a break in a pickup match, explaining the dress rules for women, those who play sports and those who don't, at a remote refugee camp for displaced Somalis in northeastern Kenya.