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Separating Men and Women in a Mosque In this mid-sixteenth-century illustration of the interior of a mosque, a screen separates the women, who are wearing veils and tending children, from the men. The women can hear what is being said, but the men cannot see them. (Ouseley Add 24 folio 55v/Bodleian Libraries, The University of Oxford, UK/The Bridgeman Art Library)