The Causes of Poor Coverage (Hijab) among Female Students and Strategies for its Optimization in Theory and Practice

The issue of hijab has not and is not an issue specific to a certain community or a geographical stretch of the world;rather, it is a universal issue embedded in various communities and their historical evolution. Protection of the Islamic values and rituals is a duty of all institutions and individuals, the observance of Islamic coverage (hijab) being an obvious instance of the same. Therefore, resorting to new and updated strategies in attracting the students to religious gatherings, the cultural departments of universities should try all the more to reconsider and present various rational aspects of the necessity of paying attention to hijab; furthermore, introducing exemplary women in Islam and Iran and expressing how they have been influential in the history and developments of the society, especially regarding to hijab, can be helpful in improving the status of hijab among female students. This article has tried to address this issue from a general perspective and with a rather sociological approach, analyzing factors which lead to this poor status of hijab among female students. Finally, a set of policies and strategies have been proposed the exact implementation of which along with other potential solutions may hinder the increasing growth of this problem. Although library method has been used in this study, it has been attempted that relevant field studies be applied as well.