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hijab /"hidZab/
· n. a head covering worn in public by some Muslim women. > the religious code which governs the wearing of such clothing.
ORIGIN Pers., from Arab. 0ajaba to veil.
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The word "
hijab" or "
ḥijāb" (
Arabic:
حجاب hijaab, pronounced
[ħiˈdʒæːb] ~ [ħiˈɡæːb]) refers to 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.[SUP]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijab#cite_note-0[/SUP][SUP]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijab#cite_note-Glasse.2C_Cyril_2001.2C_p.179-180-1[/SUP] According to
Islamic scholarship,
hijab is given the wider meaning of
modesty,
privacy, and
morality;[SUP]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijab#cite_note-dict-2[/SUP] the words for a headscarf or veil used in the
Qur'an are
khimār (
خمار) and
jilbaab (
جلباب), not
hijab. Still another definition is metaphysical, where al-hijab refers to "the veil which separates man or the world from God."[SUP]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijab#cite_note-Glasse.2C_Cyril_2001.2C_p.179-180-1[/SUP]
Muslims differ as to whether the hijab should be required on women in public, as it is in countries like
Iran and
Saudi Arabia; whether it should be banned in schools, as it is in
France and
Turkey; or whether it should be left for the women to decide, as it is in the
United States.
[h=2]Etymology and meaning[/h] According to the
Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, the meaning of
hijab has evolved over time:
The term hijab or veil is not used in the Qur'an to refer to an article of
clothing for women or men, rather it refers to a spatial curtain that divides or provides privacy. The Qur'an instructs the male believers (Muslims) to talk to wives of Prophet
Muhammad behind a hijab. This hijab was the responsibility of the men and not the wives of Prophet Muhammad. However, in later Muslim societies this instruction, specific to the wives of Prophet Muhammad, was generalized, leading to the segregation of the Muslim men and women. The modesty in Qur'an concerns both men's and women's gaze, gait, garments, and genitalia. The clothing for women involves khumūr over the necklines and jilbab (cloaks) in public so that they may be identified and not harmed. Guidelines for covering of the entire body except for the hands, the feet and the face, are found in texts of
fiqh and
hadith that are developed later.[SUP]
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[h=2]In Islamic texts[/h] [h=3]Qur'an[/h] The
Qur'an instructs both Muslim men and women to dress in a modest way.
The clearest verse on the requirement of the hijab is
surah 24:3031, asking women to draw their
khimār over their bosoms.[SUP]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijab#cite_note-IslamOnline-4[/SUP][SUP]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijab#cite_note-Hameed-5[/SUP]
And say to the believing women that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty; that they should not display their beauty and ornaments except what (must ordinarily) appear thereof; that they should draw their
khimār over their bosoms and not display their beauty except to [...] (
Qur'an 24:31)
In the following verse, Muslim women are asked to draw their
jilbab over them (when they go out), as a measure to distinguish themselves from others, so that they are not harassed. Surah 33:59 reads:[SUP]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijab#cite_note-Hameed-5[/SUP]
Those who harass believing men and believing women undeservedly, bear (on themselves) a calumny and a grievous sin. O Prophet! Enjoin your wives, your daughters, and the wives of true believers that they should cast their outer garments over their persons (when abroad): That is most convenient, that they may be distinguished and not be harassed. [...] (
Qur'an 33:5859)
[h=4]Alternative views[/h]
Women's head scarves for sale in
Jerusalem
Other Muslims take a relativist approach to ħijāb. They believe that the commandment to maintain
modesty must be interpreted with regard to the surrounding society. What is considered modest or daring in one society may not be considered so in another. It is important, they say, for believers to wear clothing that communicates modesty and reserve in the situations in which they find themselves.[SUP]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijab#cite_note-6[/SUP]
Other verses do mention separation of men and women but they refer specifically to the wives of the prophet:
Abide still in your homes and make not a dazzling display like that of the former times of ignorance[SUP][
Qur'an 33:3233][/SUP]
And when ye ask of them [the wives of the Prophet] anything, ask it of them from behind a curtain.[SUP][
Qur'an 33:53][/SUP]
According to Leila Ahmed, nowhere in the whole of the Qur'an is the term hijab applied to any woman other than the
wives of Muhammad.[SUP]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijab#cite_note-aslan-7[/SUP][SUP]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijab#cite_note-8[/SUP]
According to at least two authors (Reza Aslan and Leila Ahmed), the stipulations of the hijab were originally meant only for Muhammad's wives, and were intended to maintain their inviolability. This was because Muhammad conducted all religious and civic affairs in the mosque adjacent to his home:
People were constantly coming in and out of this compound at all hours of the day. When delegations from other tribes come to speak with Prophet Muhammad, they would set up their tents for days at a time inside the open courtyard, just a few feet away from the apartments in which Prophet Muhammad's wives slept. And new emigrants who arrived in
Yatrib would often stay within the mosque's walls until they could find suitable homes.[SUP]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijab#cite_note-aslan-7[/SUP]
According to Ahmed:
They argue that the term
darabat al-hijab ("taking the veil"), was used synonymously and interchangeably with "becoming Prophet Muhammad's wife", and that during Muhammad's life, no other Muslim woman wore the hijab. Aslam suggests that Muslim women started to wear the hijab to emulate Muhammad's wives, who are revered as "Mothers of the Believers" in Islam,[SUP]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijab#cite_note-aslan-7[/SUP] and states "there was no tradition of veiling until around 627 C.E." in the Muslim community.[SUP]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijab#cite_note-aslan-7[/SUP][SUP]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijab#cite_note-ahmedWomIslam-9[/SUP]
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