حقوق نسواں: سماجی اور ثقافتی خصوصیت حجاب کی اہمیت FEMINISM: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CHARACTERISTIC THE IMPORTANCE OF HIJAB

Abstract

Islam was not the first culture to practice veiling their women. Veiling practices started long before the Islamic prophet Muhammad was born. Societies like the Byzantines, Sassanids, and other cultures in Near and Middle East practiced veiling.2 There is even some evidence that indicates that two clans in southwestern Arabia practiced veiling in pre-Islamic times, the Banū Ismāʿīl and Banū Qaḥṭān. Veiling was a sign of a women’s social status within those societies. In Mesopotamia, the veil was a sign of a woman’s high status and respectability.