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  2. Islamic veiling practices by country - Wikipedia

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    Two mannequins; one to the left wearing a hijab on the head and one to the right veiled in the style of a niqab.. Various styles of head coverings, most notably the khimar, hijab, chador, niqab, paranja, yashmak, tudong, shayla, safseri, carşaf, haik, dupatta, boshiya and burqa, are worn by Muslim women around the world, where the practice varies from mandatory to optional or restricted in ...

  3. Types of hijab - Wikipedia

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    Traditional headgear of unmarried woman in Ingushetia. Lachak Traditional festive headgear of woman, who has married sons and daughters, in Uzbekistan , and Tajikistan , quite similar to Elechek and Kimeshek , worn only at party where only women are present (as at presence of men face was completely closed).

  4. Head covering for Jewish women - Wikipedia

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    In other Hasidic groups, women wear some type of covering over the sheitel to avoid this misconception, for example a scarf or a hat. Married Sephardi and National Religious women do not wear wigs, because their rabbis believe that wigs are insufficiently modest, and that other head coverings, such as a scarf ( tichel ), a snood , a beret, or a ...

  5. Kiswah - Wikipedia

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    The tradition of covering the Kaaba predates the emergence of Islam, with various Yemeni textiles composing the draping. [3] According to Ibn Hisham, King Tubba Abu Karib As'ad of the Himyarite Kingdom, who would later become a revered figure in Islamic traditions, clothed Kaaba for the first time during the rule of the Jurhum tribe of Mecca in the early fifth century CE after learning about ...

  6. Category:Religious headgear - Wikipedia

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  7. List of headgear - Wikipedia

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    Bowler, also coke hat, billycock, boxer, bun hat, derby; Busby; Bycocket – a hat with a wide brim that is turned up in the back and pointed in the front; Cabbage-tree hat – a hat woven from leaves of the cabbage tree; Capotain (and women) – a tall conical hat, 17th century, usually black – also, copotain, copatain; Caubeen – Irish hat

  8. Hijab in Iran - Wikipedia

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    Women wore a variety of dresses, skirts, pants, suits, and coats, often made of silk, velvet, or brocade. They also wore hijab in different forms, such as scarves, hats, or veils, depending on their personal, religious, or political preferences. [6] Following the 1979 revolution, hijab became a compulsory dress code for women by the new regime.

  9. Kashf-e hijab - Wikipedia

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    The women of the Iranian women's movement largely consisted of educated elite women positive to unveiling. This image of the Board of Governors of the women's organization Jam'iyat-e Nesvan-e Vatankhah, Tehran, is dated to 1922–1932; before the Kashf-e hijab reform in 1936. The unveiling was met with different opinions within Iran.