From veil to social presence: barriers and consequences of women's social participation from Mollanasreddin journal point of view

Moslems first encountering with the modern world induced them to reconstruct their viewpoints in various areas including women's Hijab and their social participation. Meantime, the present article focuses on the explanation of modernist Mollanasreddin journal approach on the Hijab issue and women's social participation. The questions are: what was the implication of Hijab from Mollanasreddin's viewpoint and how it linked the traditional conceptions of Hijab with women's social attendance and modern reasons? the investigation was done by analyzing the content of papers and their descriptions from Mollanasreddin journal in the first five years. The results show Mollanasreddin challenged Hijab issue using modernism and supported women's social presence. furthermore, by explicitly rejecting any kind of relevance between hijab and chastity, knew it as a wrong traditional interpretation and emphasized on its optional nature. It also stated, there is no conflict between traditional instructions and Hijab.