According to Babar Awan, this is a "controversial subject" and has various effects both within Islamic societies and the West.

[6] The Culture of Nakedness and the Nakedness of Culture discusses the effects of various factors on the form and size of clothing, without investigating those effects or discussing the quality and limits of clothing from a religious viewpoint.

[5] Comparing "the dress philosophy in post-Renaissance Europe and non-Western societies", Haddad-Adel argues that "Western clothes are short and tight", while Eastern clothing is "long and loose", because these societies have "divergent notions of humankind".

[1] The book is described by Zahra Pamela Karimi, a professor of art history at UMass Dartmouth,[7] as one of the best examples articulating the anti "Western Pahlavi reforms and global influences" in Iran whose ideas were based on the "dichotomies of 'public' and 'private' and 'foreign' and 'local'".

[8] Haddad-Adel supports "the concealment of women's bodies as a way to protect the larger society from the manipulation of capitalism and imperialism", according to Pamela Karimi.