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=== Gallery ===
<gallery perrow="6">
File:Miss World Muslimah 2013.jpg|'''Miss World Muslimah 2013'''<br/>Obabiyi Aishah Ajibola, [[Nigeria]]
File:Miss World Muslimah 2012.jpg|'''Miss World Muslimah 2012'''<br/>Nina Septiani, [[Indonesia]]
File:Miss World Muslimah 2011.jpg|'''Miss World Muslimah 2011'''<br/>Dika Restiyani, [[Indonesia]]
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=== Rewards===
=== Rewards===

Revision as of 16:09, 25 September 2013

World Muslimah Foundation
FormationAugust, 2011
TypeBeauty pageant
HeadquartersJakarta, Indonesia
Key people
Eka Shanti
WebsiteWM-Foundation website Pageant website

The World Muslimah Beauty, commonly known as Miss World Muslimah,[1] or World Muslimah[2][3] is an annual international beauty pageant, run as a charity event by the World Muslimah Foundation (WMF) to benefit relief of hunger, war, conflict and natural disasters.[4] The first World Muslimah Pageant was held on 1 August 2011, and the first pageant contest was held later in the same year.

The requirements are designed to be different from those of pageants like Miss World.[5] Contestants are required to demonstrate religious piety, to be positive role models and show a life of Muslim spirituality.[6]

World Muslimah Foundation

The pageant contest is organized by the World Muslimah Foundation (WMF) is a Muslim women’s organization found in 2011, that aims to enhance understanding of Islam and promote essential skills. WMF aims to reduce poverty, focusing primarily on the core issues of education and women's empowerment. It provides training and entrepreneurship programs, and operates charity programs for Muslim women who live in remote areas, orphanage houses, disasters land field and conflict victims. The programs are aimed particularly at Muslim women with insufficient access to education, Muslim women who play a significant role as a mother, Muslim women with demonstrable talent but low opportunity, abandoned Muslim women and refugee Muslim women.

In cooperation with Global Islamic Philanthropy, an association of Muslim based foundations in Indonesia, WM Foundation distributes donations to humanitarian crisis zones such as Rohingya, Palestine, Syria and Somalia.[7]

The pageant

The contest was first held in 2011 and was then only open to Indonesians, but it was later opened up to international entrants. Before entering the World Muslim selection, the 20 finalists have to come to Jakarta, Indonesia to participate in a workshop which is divided into two themes.

  • Sholeha (pious) and Smart: candidates focus on spiritual subjects including Quran memorization, the development of humanitarian intelligence, the challenges of Islam, woman and their future development, and being the best wife and mother in Islam.

Recitation of Quran, along with performing both compulsory prayers and gaining more knowledge of Islam, are the finalists' daily activities during the duration of the event. Even more so, outside the event because finalists are intended to be exemplary models of the ideal Muslimah.[8][9][10]

Selection criteria

Competency evaluation program involving sisters in academics, religious knowledge, information technology and social community.

Cover selection mechanism consists of 3 levels:

Stage Jury Valuation
Elimination Online Jury & Public Internet users
  • Provided administrative escaped
  • Essay quality short registration form
  • Profile of the participants
  • Comments & public support internet users
Semifinals Online Jury
  • Video documentary about the life of the participant posts a day, social activities & affordability study
  • Talent, Personality & potential participants be Muslim ambassador Sejagad
  • Public Speaking, innovation & creativity
Grand Final
  • The jury Quarantine
  • Jury Grand Final Night
  • Jury Honor orphaned children
  • Online Pooling (favorite)
  • Interview
  • Mastery of material form of quarantine religious knowledge[clarification needed], Islamic economic jurisprudence, women, personality and Islamic lifestyle
  • Intellectual intelligence, emotional and spiritual
  • Appearance
  • Cooperation between participants

Until the final announcement of the winner pageant, online community is encouraged to vote their favorite pageant on the official website.[11]

Titleholders

Year Country Miss World Muslimah
2013  Nigeria Obabiyi Aishah Ajibola[12]
2012  Indonesia Nina Septiani[13]
2011  Indonesia Dika Restiyani[14]

Rewards

The winner is crowned at the finale, and is presented with a trophy. Prizes have also been given since 2011, including a Hajj pilgrimage trip, and trips to Paris, Turkey, Jeddah, Europe, Malaysia, and India, and Islamic funds to support economic development.

See also

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