Hijab

Hijab is the Arabic appellation a lot of frequently translated as "veil" in English—-the acceptable head, face or physique accoutrement of women in the Middle East and the Islamic world. Hijab, however, does not necessarily beggarly "veil" in the English faculty of a arch scarf, and has no exact adaptation in English.

The chat derives from the Arabic basis hjb and agency "to veil, to seclude, to conceal, to anatomy a separation, to mask." The chat can be activated to a blind on one’s person, to a blind or to a allotment in a room. It can administer to amulets that accouchement abrasion to area off abuse or the angry eye. The chat can beggarly "screen" in assorted senses: as a analogue for "eyebrow" (screening the sun), or as an alone screener. In aboriginal Islam, the hajib was the man who "screened" humans gluttonous an admirers with the caliph.

The Quran refers to the hijab repeatedly, but never as an commodity of women’s clothing. Rather, it refers to the hijab as "seclusion," and does so decidedly in advertence to the Prophet Muhammad’s wives, who were to be secluded—as a assurance of their amusing exclusivity.

Just as the chat has abounding derivatives whose meanings accumulate its application, the angle of the hijab as a accoutrement of the face or the physique aswell applies differently, and goes by altered names depending on the arena and the custom: chador in Iran, burqah in Afghanistan, abayahon the Arabian Peninsula, burnusin the Maghreb.

Also Known As: chador, burqua, jilbab, abayah, milayah, burnus.

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The hijab as a arch bandage that covers the arch but not the face, for example, is the custom in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and added countries that tend hardly against the added civil end of the Islamic spectrum. It differs from the burqah or its abutting cousin, the chador, both of which are full-body coverings from arch to toe, and are worn, with stylistic differences, in