Isn’t that basically the same logic why European women would often ride sidesaddle?
This was initially conceived as a way to protect the hymen of aristocratic girls, and thus the appearance of their being virgins.[2][3]
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STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world 1 year agoI gave a Google. It’s seen as a taboo thing in many Middle Eastern societies based on a verse from Muhammad which curses the private parts of women who touch saddles. Curiously, this line has been debunked and the Quran literally mentions nothing about women riding horses.
graham1@gekinzuku.com 1 year ago
Lumidaub@feddit.de 1 year ago
Wait, sorry, I’m trying to understand. It’s “based on a verse from Muhammad” but it’s not in the Quran? Where is the verse then? And why does not being in the Quran invalidate it if it’s by Muhammad?
crowbar@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Theres quran and theres hadith, quran is infallible, hadith not so much, this “verse of muhammad” is a hadith, possibly the falsified one
ZzyzxRoad@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Either way, it still wouldn’t make much sense for women to not be allowed to drive, but allowed to ride a horse.