A Shenandoah, also known as an Amish beard, a chin curtain, a Donegal, a Lincoln, a spade beard, or a whaler, is a style of facial hair. The hair is grown full and long over the jaw and chin, meeting the sideburns, while the hair above the mouth is shaved. This facial hair style is popular among followers of certain sects of Islam, as they believe it is how the

Islamic prophet Prophets in Islam ( ar, الأنبياء في الإسلام, translit=al-ʾAnbiyāʾ fī al-ʾIslām) are individuals in Islam who are believed to spread God's message on Earth and to serve as models of ideal human behaviour. Some prophets a ...

Muhammad Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet divinely inspired to preach and confirm the monot ...

wore his beard, citing the relevant

hadith Ḥadīth ( or ; ar, حديث, , , , , , , literally "talk" or "discourse") or Athar ( ar, أثر, , literally "remnant"/"effect") refers to what the majority of Muslims believe to be a record of the words, actions, and the silent approval ...

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Muhammad al-Bukhari Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet divinely inspired to preach and confirm the mono ...

, "Cut the mustaches short and leave the beard". In the United States, this beard style is common among married

Amish The Amish (; pdc, Amisch; german: link=no, Amische), formally the Old Order Amish, are a group of traditionalist Anabaptist Christian church fellowships with Swiss German and Alsatian origins. They are closely related to Mennonite churches ...

men. Male members of the sect generally grow a beard after

baptism Baptism (from grc-x-koine, βάπτισμα, váptisma) is a form of ritual purification—a characteristic of many religions throughout time and geography. In Christianity, it is a Christian sacrament of initiation and adoption, almost inv ...

, but shave the mustache off.

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Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln ( ; February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln led the nation thro ...

wearing a chin curtain beard File:Amish Man (5019141655).jpg, An Amish man with a Shenandoah beard File:Https hypebeast.com image 2020 12 khabib-nurmagomedov-eagle-fighting-championship-news-001.jpg, Muslim athlete Khabib Nurmagomedov with a shaved mustache and an untrimmed beard. File:Chernobrov.jpg, alt=, Vadim Chernobrov wearing a beard File:Pertti-Pasanen-1964a.jpg, Finnish entertainer Spede Pasanen wearing a shenandoah

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