{"id":4726,"date":"2017-09-07T11:42:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T11:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/4726-doll-wears-hijab-recites-quran-verses\/"},"modified":"2017-09-07T11:42:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T11:42:51","slug":"doll-wears-hijab-recites-quran-verses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/4726-doll-wears-hijab-recites-quran-verses\/","title":{"rendered":"Doll wears hijab, recites Quran verses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French businesswoman and mother Samira Amarir struggled to find toys which could help impart her Islamic faith to her young daughter, so she invented her own.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4>French businesswoman and mother Samira Amarir struggled to find toys which could help impart her Islamic faith to her young daughter, so she invented her own.<\/h4>\n<h4>Now the &#8220;Jenna\u201d doll, which she designed from scratch to recite four chapters from the Quran, has entered mass production and is on sale in Persian Gulf Arab countries.<\/h4>\n<h4>&#8220;When my daughter Jenna turned two years old, I was looking for a toy or a tool,\u201d Amarir said, according to Reuters.<\/h4>\n<h4>&#8220;The idea was to come up with a toy that would enable her to learn the Quran fast and easily while she plays.\u201d<\/h4>\n<h4>Jenna, with a name derived from the Arabic word for heaven, comes dressed in a lengthy &#8220;abaya\u201d robe with a matching purple headscarf.<\/h4>\n<h4>Designing the doll using online modelling software, Amarir decided to give it a dark skin tone.<\/h4>\n<h4>&#8220;For me it was important that the doll would show something my daughter can recognize herself in, or recognize her mother at least,\u201d she said.<\/h4>\n<h4>The four chapters that Jenna recites are short and designed to be easy for a child to memorize. 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