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Purdah: Hijab, Burqa, Sex Segregation, Niq B, Yashmak, Zenana

Purdah: Hijab, Burqa, Sex Segregation, Niq B, Yashmak, Zenana


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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Hijab, Burqa, Sex Segregation, Niq b, Yashmak, Zenana. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Part of a series on a discipline of Islamic studies A hijab or (Arabic:, pronounced /) is both the head covering traditionally worn by Muslim women and modest Muslim styles of dress in general. The Arabic word literally means curtain or cover (noun). Most Islamic legal systems define this type of modest dressing as covering everything except the face and hands in public. According to Islamic scholarship, hijab is given the wider meaning of modesty, privacy, and morality; the word for a headscarf or veil used in the Qur'an is khimr () and not hijab. Still another definition is metaphysical, where al-hijab refers to "the veil which separates man or the world from God." Muslims differ as to whether the hijab should be required on women in public, like it is in countries like Iran and Saudi Arabia, or whether it should be banned in schools, as it is in France and Turkey. According to the Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, the meaning of hijab has evolved over time: In Saudi Arabia, where women have been ordered to be "properly covered" outside their homes, some wear not only head-to-toe black cloaks but also full veils over their faces without even slits for their eyes. In Indonesia, notably the nation with the largest Muslim population, and some cultures or languages influenced by it namely Malaysia, Brunei and the Philippines, the term jilbab is used instead with few exceptions to refer to the hijab, as opposed to its "correct" modern Arabic definition. In some cases, colloquial use of the term Jilbab may refer to any pre-Islamic female traditional head-dress. The Qur'an instructs both Muslim men and women to dress in a modest way. The clearest verse on ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=68301


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  • ISBN-13: 9781155388878
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 58
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Weight: 95 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1155388879
  • Publisher Date: 14 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Hijab, Burqa, Sex Segregation, Niq B, Yashmak, Zenana
  • Width: 229 mm


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