# France bans the abaya in state schools on secularism grounds (2023)

Date: 2023

In August 2023 French Education Minister [Gabriel Attal](/people/gabriel-attal) instructed state-school leaders that abayas and qamis were not permitted under the application of France's secularism rules in public education. This record covers the documented ministerial instruction, not later litigation or broader claims about educational outcomes.

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