Hijab history

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2 min readJul 22, 2019

Hijab history

According to texts from some historical sources, in most nations and religions, there has been a veil among women. Although history has gone through many ups and downs and sometimes exacerbated or relieved by the rulers’ tastes, it has never been eliminated. Historians rarely mention primitive relatives whose women did not have an appropriate cover or appeared naked in the community. Scientists attribute the history of wearing and wearing women to our era before and after the Stone Age, the book The Woman in the Mirror of History, after a detailed plan of the causes and historical factors of the hijab, writes: Given the reasons mentioned and the study of works and The motifs involved are the emergence of hijab before pre-religious periods.

The cover of women in the course of history is a symbol of women’s position in every culture and civilization. By studying history, we find that women in the East have a more solid and complete cover than Western women, which also indicates that the people’s view of women in a land like Iran has been different from that of Western women. Coverage of women in ancient Iran shows that Iranian women’s hijab, even before Islam entered Iran, was a full hijab and unique in the ancient world.

Hijab in the Iranian-Turkish era

In the Iranian-Turkish era, i.e., the regimes of the Ghaznavids, Seljuks, and Khwarizmshahids, women used a tent and an armchair covering the entire head. Usually, he hid his forehead, chin, and mouth, and the tape was closed on this forehead and the forehead. The other type of cover was about the same as the tent of the head and continued to cover the shoulders and hide almost the whole body. These caps were mostly white, green, and occasionally red.

hijab in the Safavid era

French Sharon commented on the coverage of women in the Safavid era on his travels: “The head of women is a white chest that reaches to the shoulder, and a white tent that only points behind it, and fastens the front of the face with cloth or lacing. At the same time, women wear their heads and wear them over their chests. “In her travel report, Eriaru states:” Women, when they leave the house, cover their faces with a white towel, and their tent covers the whole body. And their eyes are open. “

During the Safavid period, the hijab has been very important. Women did not leave home without hijab during this period.

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