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  2. Taliban issue no-shave order to barbers in Afghan province - AOL

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    The Taliban on Monday banned barbershops in a southern Afghanistan province from shaving or trimming beards, claiming their edict is in line with Shariah, or Islamic, law. The order in Helmand ...

  3. Facial hair in the military - Wikipedia

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    Bearded members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps during a military ceremony in 1998. Beards are permitted in the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran.As a sign of their ideological motivation, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (Sepah) personnel used to tend to wear full beards, while the Islamic Republic of Iran Army personnel are usually trimmed or wear mustaches.

  4. Beard and haircut laws by country - Wikipedia

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    In the Edo period (1603–1867) of Japan, the Tokugawa Shogunate passed orders for Japanese men to shave the pate on the front of their head (the chonmage hairstyle) and shave their beards, facial hair and side whiskers. [20] This was similar to the Qing dynasty queue order imposed by Dorgon making men shave the pates on the front of their ...

  5. Beard - Wikipedia

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    Beard hair is most commonly removed by shaving or by trimming with the use of a beard trimmer. If only the area above the upper lip is left unshaven, the resulting facial hairstyle is known as a mustache; if hair is left only on the chin, the style is a goatee. Full: downward flowing beard with either a styled or integrated mustache

  6. Taliban official: Women banned from Afghanistan's gyms - AOL

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    The Taliban are banning women from using gyms in Afghanistan, an official in Kabul said Thursday, the religious group's latest edict cracking down on women's rights and freedoms since they took ...

  7. Treatment of women by the Taliban - Wikipedia

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    The Taliban rulings regarding public conduct placed severe restrictions on a woman's freedom of movement and created difficulties for those who could not afford a burqa (which was not commonly worn in Afghanistan prior to the rise of the Taliban and considered a fairly expensive garment at upwards of US$9.00 in 1998 (equivalent to about $17 in 2023) [7]: 8 ) or did not have any mahram.

  8. Afghan Women Banned From Hearing Each Other’s Voices ... - AOL

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    The Taliban has now implemented a new measure banning women in Afghanistan from hearing one another during prayers, further restricting their freedom. As stated on Amu TV, a Virginia-based Afghan ...

  9. History of the Taliban - Wikipedia

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    Flag of the Taliban. The Taliban (/ ˈ t æ l ɪ b æ n, ˈ t ɑː l ɪ b ɑː n /; Pashto: طَالِبَانْ, romanized: ṭālibān, lit. 'students'), which also refers to itself by its state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, [1] [2] is an Afghan militant movement, that governs Afghanistan, with an ideology comprising elements of Pashtun nationalism and the Deobandi movement of ...