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VEIL is a long canal Muslim clothing covering the entire body except the hands, feet and face are commonly worn by Muslim women. The use of this type of clothing associated with the guidance of Islamic law to use clothes that cover the genitalia or known as hijab
Etymologically hijab comes from the Arabic meaning jalaba collect or bring. The term hijab is used in Muslim countries are as different types of clothing to naming Iran-beda.Di called a chador, in India and Pakistan called pardeh, in Libya milayat, in Iraq the abaya, in Turkey charshaf, and hood in Malaysia, while in Arab-African countries called hijab.
History and hijab controversy
A place called the Medina quarter in Essaouira, Morocco, shows the women who are currently using a traditional veil.
World
In Turkey in December 1934 the President of Turkey Mustafa Kemal Atatürk issued a ban on the use of the original fabric of indigenous (previously Turkey was ruled by the Ottoman Empire) in the country.
In Iran in 1936, Shah Reza Pahlavi issued an order prohibiting the use of any form of Islamic nuances of clothing by women in Iran.
In Turkey in 2006 an expert archaeologist named Muazzez Ilmiye Sumerian Cig, in his book entitled My Reactions as a Citizen, called the veil associated with prostitution at the time of the Sumerian civilization. According Cig, the origin of the veil has been tracked since the Sumerian civilization in Mesopotamia (now Iraq southeast) 5,000 years ago, long before Islam was present in the world. At that time, many women who wear a headscarf. Typically, the veil used women working in prostitution in the temples to distinguish it from a nun at the temple. As a result of the statement he was sued in a Turkish court but finally acquitted