Rami’s religious conversion reordered his everyday social conduct toward modesty

Evidence

“It took me a long way to come up the hill,” Rami says, referring to the distance between his old life and the new one. In fact, he would now begin to view his old life critically. It was, he says, too attached to what Muslims call matters of the dunya, to worldly success. Now he was learning to be satisfied with anything, whether it was a lot or a little. He was teaching himself not to be envious or jealous of others. And he was learning that he should lower his gaze in front of women and not sit beside them in class. Instead he would now choose a seat by other men or, if necessary, by himself. — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 883