Arabic Clothing - Agal (Accessory), Bisht (Clothing), Burqa, Fez (Hat), Hijab, Izaar, Jilb B, Keffiyeh, Niq B, Sirwal, Tantour, Taqiyah (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Agal (accessory), Bisht (clothing), Burqa, Fez (hat), Hijab, Izaar, Jilb b, Keffiyeh, Niq b, Sirwal, Tantour, Taqiyah (cap), Thawb, Turban. Excerpt: A niqab (Arabic:, "veil" or "mask"; also called a ruband ) is a cloth which covers the face as a part of sartorial hijab. It is worn by some Muslim women in public areas and in front of non-mahram adult males. The niqab is worn in the Arab countries of the Arabian Peninsula such as Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, and the UAE. Various forms of niqab are also worn in countries such as Somalia, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Egypt, India, some parts of Israel, southern provinces of Iran, and other areas with sizeable Muslim populations. Because of the wide variety of hijab worn in the Muslim world, it can be difficult to definitively distinguish between one type of veil and another. The terms niqab and burqa are often incorrectly used interchangeably; a niqab covers the face while a burqa covers the whole body from the top of the head to the ground. Women who wear the niqab are often called; this word is used both as a noun and as an adjective. However, the correct form (plural ) as is used in a derogatory manner (much as with versus ). Colloquially, women in niqab are called, with the plural . The word niqabi is commonly used in English to refer to a woman who wears a niqab. It is sometimes alleged that the face-veil was originally part of women's dress among certain classes in the Byzantine Empire and was adopted into Muslim culture during the Arab conquest of the Middle East. However, although Byzantine art before Islam commonly depicts women with veiled heads or covered hair, it does not depict women with veiled faces. In addition, the Greek geographer Strabo, writing in the first century AD, refers to some Persian women veiling their faces; and the early...