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This table of types of hijab describes terminologically distinguished styles of clothing commonly associated with the word hijab.. The Arabic word hijāb can be translated as "cover, wrap, curtain, veil, screen, partition", among other meanings. [1]
About seven verses address the way a woman should dress when walking in public; [42] Muslims have differed as how to understand these verses; Sunni [43] [44] ^ and twelver and Shia [45] scholars say hijab is mandatory, while Ismailis, accounting for ~0.25% of all Muslims, believe it is not.
Islamic precepts related to modesty are at the base of Islamic clothing.Adherents of Islam believe that it is the religious duty of adult Muslim men and women to dress modestly, as an obligatory ruling agreed upon by community consensus.
The Arab love story of Lāyla and Majnūn was arguably more widely known amongst Muslims than that of Romeo and Juliet in (Northern) Europe, [289] while the Persian author Jāmī's retelling of the story of Yusuf (Joseph) and Zulaykhā—based upon the narrative of Surat Yusuf in the Quran—is a seminal text in the Persian, Urdu, and Bengali ...
Moslema in style fashion show in Kuala Lumpur. Today the Islamic Fashion market is still in its early development stage; however, according to the numbers provided by the Global Islamic Economy Indicator [5] the dynamics will rapidly change: Muslim consumers spent an estimated $266bn on clothing in 2014, a number that is projected to grow up to $484bn by 2019.
The term “tudong” or “tudung” is a Malay/Indonesian word, literally meaning the noun "cover", which is commonly translated as veil or headscarf in English.Tudong is usually used to describe the headscarf in Malaysia, while in Indonesia it is more common to call the tudong the kerudung or perhaps the jilbab.
Despite having first been recorded by Captain Cook in the late 1790s, the first emperor penguin colony wasn’t discovered until 1902. Because they dwell in such extreme southern climes that are ...
A niqāb or niqaab (/ n ɪ ˈ k ɑː b /; Arabic: نقاب), also known as a ruband (Persian: روبند), is a long garment worn by some Muslim women in order to cover their entire body and face, excluding their eyes.