Expert Witness Report on Gender Interactions and Women Clothing in the Islamic Tradition Adis Duderija The injunctions pertaining to women clothing in the Islamic interpretive tradition and gender relations in general (primarily Islamic jurisprudence known as fiqh) are result of interpretive processes that have taken several centuries to form. What is today considered four mainstream Sunni Islamic schools of law only reached large degree of hermeneutical stability after over 400 years of juristic and legal methodology reasoning (Hallaq 2004 ; Jackson 2002). Jackson, who uses a Darwinian metaphor of the survival of the fittest, describes this process of the formation of mainstream Sunnism as follows by the end of the 4th/10th century, the madhhab had emerged as the exclusive repository of legal authority. From this point on, all interpretive activity, if it was to be sanctioned and recognized as authoritative or “orthodox,” would have to take place wit