Pictures of Muslims Wearing Things

Actress Niki Karimi makes a few wrinkles in her seafoam scarf somehow look effortlessly and even intentionally chic. 

Imam Talal Eid is pictured here attending a dinner in the state dining room of the White House, in 2005. As a Harvard doctorate alum, Talal’s crimson accents were clearly a diss to George Bush’s pedestrian Yale degree.

An unidentified Muslim woman wears the traditional hijabi spikes of her people.

Omani soccer player Ali Al-Habsi wears his best ‘bring it’ face.

Wearing her home country’s jersey, Heba Ahmed uses her delicate Muslim woman arms to carry her boat to the water for some pre-Olympic training.

Muslims in the United States? They’ve kind of been around for centuries.

Ayuba Suleiman Diallo (1701-1773), an African slave from Bondu (present-day Senegal) is seen here in a portrait wearing white and a small Quran around his neck. Ayuba was one of an estimated tens of thousands of Muslim slaves brought to North America from the African continent. [read more: wiki, jstor]

For members of the renowned Malian group Tinariwen, male members have often been traditionally more covered up than the female members.

DJ Raichous garbs her bookshelf old school style - with pure vinyl.

This is Khalil Ismail. Khalil is wearing the traditional preppy Muslim garb of his native Baltimore, Maryland.

Omar Faruk Tekbilek, garbed with his native flute.