5459 x 3639 px | 46,2 x 30,8 cm | 18,2 x 12,1 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
octobre 2008
Lieu:
Poka Epe Lagos State Nigeria Africa
Informations supplémentaires:
A niqāb is a veil which covers the face, worn by some Muslim women as a part of sartorial hijāb. Niqab is most common in the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf such as Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, and the UAE. It is also common in Pakistan, parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the United Kingdom. Women who wear the niqāb are often called niqābī; this word is used both as a noun and as an adjective. However, some prefer the participial form munaqqabah (plural munaqqabāt) as "niqābī" may be used in a derogatory manner (much as with "hijābī" versus muhajjabah). Because of the wide variety of hijab worn in the Muslim world, it can be difficult to definitively distinguish between one type of veil and another. The terms niqab and burqa are often used interchangeably. Muslim girls are advised to wear the niqāb starting at puberty. A burqa also transliterated burkha, burka or burqua from Arabic: برقع burqu‘ ) is an enveloping outer garment worn by women in some Islamic traditions for the purpose of cloaking the entire body. It is worn over the usual daily clothing (often a long dress or a shalwar kameez) and removed when the woman returns to the sanctuary of the household (see purdah). The burqa is usually understood to be the woman's loose body-covering , plus the head-covering (Arabic: ḥijāb, taking the most usual meaning), plus the face-veil (Arabic: niqāb). The word comes from the Arabic root which means "to patch up" or "to sew up". The face-veil portion is usually a rectangular piece of semi-transparent cloth whose top side is sewn to corresponding portion of the head-scarf, so that the veil hangs down loose from the scarf, and it can be turned up if the woman wishes to reveal her face (otherwise the whole face would be covered). In other cases, the niqāb part can be a side-attached cloth which covers the face below the eyes' region. The face-veil portion is also called purdah ([pərd̪aː]), a Persian word meaning "curtain".
