Talk:Niqāb

	Niqāb was a good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
Article milestones Date Process Result December 28, 2005 Featured article candidate Not promoted May 4, 2007 Good article nominee Not listed
Current status: Former good article nominee

This  level-5 vital article is rated B-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects:

Islam Mid‑importance This article is within the scope of WikiProject Islam, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Islam-related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.IslamWikipedia:WikiProject IslamTemplate:WikiProject IslamIslam-related articles Mid This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale. Religion Mid‑importance Mid This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale. Gender studies This article is part of WikiProject Gender studies. This WikiProject aims to improve the quality of articles dealing with gender studies and to remove systematic gender bias from Wikipedia. If you would like to participate in the project, you can choose to edit this article, or visit the project page for more information.Gender studiesWikipedia:WikiProject Gender studiesTemplate:WikiProject Gender studiesGender studies articles ??? This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale. To-do list: Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Assess : see Unassessed Gender studies articles and Unknown-importance Gender studies articles Cleanup : edit to see Collaborate : see /Collaboration Copyedit : edit to see Deletion sorting : see /Sexuality and gender Expand : edit to see Infobox : see Gender studies articles needing infoboxes Merge : edit to see Notability : edit to see NPOV : edit to see Orphans : Brannon Masculinity Scale · Domestic violence in lesbian relationships · Holy Virility · Media and gender · Michael Kaufman (author) · Women's education in Saudi Arabia Photo : see Wikipedia requested photographs of gender studies Split : History of feminism Stubs : see Gender studies stubs Translate : see /translation Update : edit to see Verify : Riot grrrl Needs attention : see Gender studies articles needing attention Women's History Mid‑importance This article is within the scope of WikiProject Women's History, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Women's history and related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Women's HistoryWikipedia:WikiProject Women's HistoryTemplate:WikiProject Women's HistoryWomen's History articles Mid This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

The following paragraph isn't relevant enough to warrant this much of a mention in the beginning of the article. It's relevance at all is questionable since it comes from a Non-Muslim group, the man founded it claimed to be a Messenger of God which violates the fundamental Muslim belief that the Prophet Muhammad pbuh was the last messenger of God. The posting is also too general to be used for an encyclopedic article on the Niqab and should remain in the article on the hijab, which it already is. I'm deleting it but if anyone disagrees and wishes to keep it, it should be kept to a one-liner on a section titled "criticisms of the niqab."

"There is a Muslim group known as Submitters (English for Muslims), who follow the Quran Alone, and argue that the Quran makes no mention or obligation for women to cover their heads. The minimum requirements in the Quran in terms of dress for women, is to cover their chests Quran 24:30-31, and lengthen their garments Quran 33:59. They argue that tyrannical Arab traditions have given a false impression that a woman must be covered from head to toe, and such is not a Quranic or Islamic dress. This belief of establishing Islamic practices based on the Quran Alone, was made popular by Rashad Khalifa, a man who claimed to be God's Messenger of the Covenant, prophesized in the Quran: Quran 3:81 and Quran 33:7." --Moah (talk) 00:24, 28 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Is this garment the same as a yashmak - see also [1]? Pcb21| Pete 19:37, 1 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

For more than a year now, this article has contained the phrasing

contrary to popular belief, and probably against what some people would hope, the Burqah's usage is limited solely to Afghanistan and certain area of Pakistan

which is certainly not NPOV. I have edited it. 168.12.253.82 20:16, 5 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I removed "Some prostitutes in Islamic countries also use niqāb as a way of hiding their identity when they come or go to their job" because of a lack of citation. I searched for niqab and prostitute online and couldn't find any sources to support this. The Radio Star 21:06, 19 July 2006 (UTC) -Alright, I found a source, so I re-entered it with a citation. The Radio Star 08:33, 27 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

To be criminalised in Holland!

This is a great article! Given the current firestorm of controversy over wearing the niqab, it's really refreshing to see how neutral and informative this is.Ninquerinquar 02:26, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I removed Template:Fiqh-Eti and Template:Islamicdress because they make editing and reading the article more difficult without providing any navigational value which cannot be found in the text itself. --Wasted Sapience 04:47, 14 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's poor article from technical viewpoint. For example the questionable translation for the verse of Qur'an Oh Prophet! Tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to draw their cloaks (veils) all over their bodies (Ahzab 59) has been used while in Arabic it doesn't explicitly means "all over their bodies" . It's one of possible interpretation of this verse. Furthermore it's not clear which madhāhab recommends it and which one forbade it. Therefor I added the {{

I agree that it would be nice to see some more material on the translation of the crucial passage - I am by no means an expert and would welcome a comparison of the differing translations if someone feels competent to do it. Helen-Eva 09:52, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I removed some commentary from inside the quotation marks of the Muhammad quote, as the commentary just reflects the writers opinion. Putting it inside a quotation from Muhammad makes it seem like the authors comment comes from Muhammad. —The preceding

Please see the "To do" box above. --Aminz 05:23, 4 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Under the "Politics" heading, the page reads "The niqāb is outlawed in the Muslim countries of Tunisia and Turkey." However right next to that line is a picture of "Women in Adana (Turkey) wearing the niqab." What's up with that? Were these women arrested after the picture was taken? It seems odd perhaps unprofessional. —Preceding unsigned comment added by SSJPabs (talk • contribs) 07:09, 10 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Taureg picture refers to the man wearing a Niqab. I am not aware that in Arabic, one refers to the Taureg Tagelmust as a Niqab. In fact I am fairly certain one does not. It is not technically a Niqab regardless. (collounsbury (talk) 13:12, 8 October 2008 (UTC))[reply]

The claim that niqab is common in Bosnia-Hercegovina cannot be sustained by any reputable source. Niqab is very rare in Bosnia-Hercegovina and only occasionally visible in urban settings. Bosnian Muslim rural women do not wear niqab. Bosnia was under Habsburg, Yugoslav monarchist, and Yugoslav Communist rule from 1878 to 1992 and is a European society in which the practice of face covering is almost completely absent. Stephen Suleyman Schwartz [[[Special:Contributions/68.50.176.33|68.50.176.33]] (talk) 19:25, 18 September 2009 (UTC)][reply]

Today's Helsingin Sanomat mentions that in Egypt, women are now being advised to wear niqabs only showing one eye. I think that if the religious leaders had their way, the niqabs wouldn't even show that much, but then we get the practical problem of women not being able to see where they're going. I believe we've now reached the maximum practical extent of covering up women's bodies. Are there any other sources for this? JIP | Talk 21:25, 4 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not at all. They could aim for virtual reality googles underneath complete head enclosure.Eregli bob (talk) 06:12, 31 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Many currents in Islam. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8290606.stm Egypt cleric 'to ban full veils': "Egypt's highest Muslim authority has said he will issue a religious edict against the growing trend for full women's veils, known as the niqab. Sheikh Mohamed Tantawi, dean of al-Azhar university, called full-face veiling a custom that has nothing to do with the Islamic faith. ..." SmithBlue (talk) 14:11, 5 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The government of the Malaysian state of Kelantan have proposed a ban on the purdah if necessary for security reasons. [2] While it's not clear my guess is this would include the niqab if it were to ever be implemented given the rationale Nil Einne (talk) 09:32, 9 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Covering one's wife, daughter prevents them from being oogled or lusted after by hiding their physical beauty. "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife."156.34.179.3 (talk) 23:17, 21 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The claim that niqab is common in United Kingdom cannot be sustained by any reputable source. Niqab is very rare in United Kingdom and only occasionally visible in urban settings. Even in highly concentrated muslim areas it is a rare sight, the Hijab being the dominant form of veil. Splodgeness (talk) 12:17, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Can anyone give either the IPA or a short sound sample of the correct pronunciation for Niqāb ? User A1 (talk) 19:15, 15 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There are views that consider veil and niqab are not related to Muslims only as women in western countries and different other religions used to wear veil or niqab too in the past. And there is an example of an Austrian princess wearing niqab in this link. --Notopia (talk) 14:27, 12 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Is that a given? How do we know it wasn't Michael Jackson in the photo? Varlaam (talk) 19:43, 8 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The word Niqāb is incorrect. The letter a has no accent over it in English. Therefore this article should be titled - "Niqab" not "Niqāb"

The Taj Mahal is in India. As far as I know it has little to do with Islam. Perhaps a change is in order. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.37.24.97 (talk) 23:47, 1 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I removed an image from the article that showed a female with her breasts exposed. This image is controversial and should not be added to this article unless there is firm consensus. My view is that it adds no educational information about the topic because there are many other images available to illustrate the article that are not controversial, so it is an unnecessary distraction. FloNight♥♥♥♥ 14:25, 25 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not to mention the purpose of the garment is to cover up, not to tease as the artwork does, so this image is just irrelevant to the article. CarolMooreDC 17:32, 25 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

« My view is that it adds no educational information about the topic ». This is the exact opposite, sister : it shows the way a niqab is composed. Puritan viewpoints of hysterical feminists always brings to absurdity. 83.204.229.190 (talk) 15:36, 6 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The Picture "Woman in Yemen wearing a niqab" is misleading, as it may be taken in Yemen(?) but shows a nurse wearing a modern, white niqab which is completely untpical for Yemen. The typical Niqab in Yemen is black - or in more traditional regions sometimes colorful. However, this picture was just taken from Flickr...

The Picture "A woman wearing a niqab in the United Arab Emirates" is also taken from Flickr and shows anything but a real Niqab worn in public in the Emirates.

Both pictures should be deleted and replaced by pictures with a traceable background. 79.235.92.205 (talk) 18:11, 23 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I have added three primary sources indicating use of the face veil is well documented among some women in the Middle East prior to Islam. The later reference to circumstances in which wearing the Niqab is not mandated may be better moved, or a new subsection introduced.Cpsoper (talk) 05:11, 25 October 2013 (UTC) References added to document secondary source evidence.Cpsoper (talk) 14:17, 6 April 2014 (UTC) Tamar's use of face veil described and referenced.Cpsoper (talk) 14:47, 6 April 2014 (UTC) A contemporary example of similar behaviour also referenced under 'criticism', which seems the most appropriate place for it.Cpsoper (talk) 11:49, 5 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Further to this (4 years later), this section is confusing. The first few sentences imply (but never clearly state) that their is debate about whether it existed pre-Islam. But the rest of the article states it clearly as fact. This needs to be clarified. Ashmoo (talk) 10:25, 18 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Where's the debate you allude to documented? It's not clear why a large section of sourced text removed not only from this article, it is not found in other articles on the burqa or other forms of face veils.

General material on face veiling has previously been scattered between this article and Burqa. It has been consolidated there. Eperoton (talk) 03:03, 4 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The section "Views among Muslim scholars" mostly talks about scholars' opinions from the Sunni schools of thought. I have subdivided this into the four 'denominations' indicated in the wikipedia article on Islam, for consistency (Sunni, Shia, Sufism, Other Denominations). Perhaps more expert writers could develop the reporting on views with respect to the niqāb amongst Muslim scholars from Shia, Sufi, and Other Denominations.--137.108.145.39 (talk) 16:16, 15 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

{{citation needed}} added - The previous external link, {{Hadith-usc|abudawud|2|311}}, doesn't mention such passage as stated there. Neither I could find an alternative source expressing the same. Jayaguru-Shishya (talk) 10:07, 16 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I just encountered a suspicious revert on the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Niq%C4%81b&diff=602918728&oldid=602619258

The revert is done by user Vixencondo34, and it seems to be the only edit on his whole account: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Vixencondo34

Even more suspiciously, the revert happened while there was an open WP:EDITWAR dispute going at the Adminstrators noticeboard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Edit_warring#User:QuackGuru_reported_by_User:Jayaguru-Shishya_.28Result:_Both_warned.29

However, it might be the case that the revert has nothing to do with the dispute mentioned above, so I will go through one by one the reverts made. Let's see the content of the revert:

Original: The Quran admonishes Muslim women to dress modestly and cover their private parts'.
Revert: The Quran admonishes Muslim women to dress modestly and cover their breasts and genitals.
Comment: Breasts and genitals? What is this, a bikini contest? The source provided for this (Martin et al. (2003), Encyclopedia of Islam & the Muslim World, Macmillan Reference,

Original: The Quran admonishes Muslim women to dress modestly and cover their private parts.
Revert: The

Original: Wearing the niqab, however, is not exclusive to the

Jayaguru-Shishya (talk) 20:54, 6 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Once again we have words in parentheses inserted into quotations from the Koran. A more literal translation of 33:59 would be – "Tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to bring down over themselves part of their outer garments," that is, a cloak is what is being talked of, not a veil. The phrase is yudnina min jalabibibhinna, with the latter word indicating the item of clothing. Clearly not a veil, even if many people understand it as such. This is yet another case of inserting a specific interpretation on top of the actual text, and should be deleted. Translation from Abdelwahab Meddeb, Islam and the Challenge of Civilization, p. 134. As Meddeb says, "Nowhere in … these scriptural references does there appear the kind of veil that covers the head and hair, nor the traditional veils or the current one worn by women today." Theonemacduff (talk) 03:43, 20 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The part of the criticism is mainly about whether or not the Niqab is part of Islam (plus a few words that generally just mentions that "there is a repulsive reaction out there in the west"). I think that this article should behold some feminist&liberal criticisms and answers to them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.114.91.215 (talk • contribs) 00:27, 25 July 2015

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just added archive links to one external link on

• Added archive https://web.archive.org/20070302122758/http://www.modernmuslima.com:80/niqabhow.htm to http://www.modernmuslima.com/niqabhow.htm

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true to let others know.

This message was posted before February 2018.

• If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
• If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.

This article, like quite a few Islam-related articles, fetishises and overuses Arabic terminology. There are certainly cases (e.g. Theology) where it makes sense and it’s interesting to me to see the linguistic relationship between niqāb and munaqabāt, but in an English-language article the constant use of munaqabāt is distracting and totally out of balance. Any English speaker dipping into the middle of the article would not understand what was being said. ☸ Moilleadóir ☎ 02:51, 18 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

In 2016, a legal ban on face-covering Islamic clothing were adopted by Bulgarian parliament.

• DailyMail: Bulgaria bans the burqa: Women no longer allowed to wear veils after nationalist party pushed for law change amid fears of Islamic terrorism

Also in 2016, a legal ban on face-covering Islamic clothing were adopted by Latvian parliament.

• Independent: Islamic face veil to be banned in Latvia despite being worn by just three women in entire country

423Norvarwrwtere2423 (talk) 01:01, 21 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

In November 2016, Netherlands parliament voted in favor of a legal ban on face-covering Islamic clothing.

• Niederlande verbieten Burkas und Niqabs (german)

92.76.120.9 (talk) 18:41, 29 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I propose to merge the multiple descriptions of legislation or cultural norms which may dictate to wear or to ban the wearing of any form of Islamic which are described on this page and multiple other pages to be merged into the article

 Of the thousands of reports included in the six canonical Sunni hadith collections, Clarke identifies only one that addresses the requirement for women’s covering. She points out that this hadith is included only in Abu Dawud’s late ninth-century compilation and is reported by Abu Dawud himself without the requisite chain of reporters. [...] This particular hadith tells of an incident in which Asma (the daughter of Abu Bakr, the Prophet’s closest friend and the first caliph at Muhammad’s death) came to the Prophet wearing see-through clothes. He is said to have turned away, stating: “Asma, if a woman reaches the age of menstruation, it is not fit that anything be seen of her except this and this.” According to Abu Dawud, the Prophet pointed to his face and hands. Amer, Sahar. What Is Veiling? (Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks) (p. 33). The University of North Carolina Press. Kindle Edition. With reference to Lynda Clarke, "Hijab According to the Hadith: Text and Interpretation." In The Muslim Veil in North America: Issues and Debates. Toronto: Women's Press, 2003, pp. 214-286.

The following appears to be editorializing that is unsuitable for wikipedia:[3]

The adoption by other Muslims of this non-Islamic cultural clothing custom (which is itself native only to certain Arabian tribes) appears to be an attempt by other Muslims to mimic what they have reasoned, in a

logical fallacy

, must be authentically Islamic since it is a part of the culture of these Arabians and Islam was born in Arabia.

Even if there are some reliable sources that mention this opinion, it is merely an opinion and must be attributed as such.Bless sins (talk) 17:53, 30 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 10 external links on Niqāb. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

• Corrected formatting/usage for http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&cid=1254573360090&pagename=Zone-English-News%2FNWELayout
• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20130112100117/http://selfscholar.wordpress.com/tag/niqab-madhab/ to http://selfscholar.wordpress.com/tag/niqab-madhab/
• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20130908073026/http://ozdawah.com/2011/11/07/the-niqab-fard-or-sunnah-according-to-the-madhaahib/ to http://ozdawah.com/2011/11/07/the-niqab-fard-or-sunnah-according-to-the-madhaahib/
• Corrected formatting/usage for http://www.al-khoei.org/al-huda/download/alh_ja1423.pdf
• Corrected formatting/usage for http://www.jamiat.org.za/w_veil.html
• Corrected formatting/usage for http://www.renaissance.com.pk/Feb242y5.htm
• Corrected formatting/usage for http://womenpress.org/articles.php?id=309
• Corrected formatting/usage for http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/06/06/florida.license.veil/
• Corrected formatting/usage for http://www.aclufl.org/issues/religious_liberty/freemanstatement.cfm
• Corrected formatting/usage for http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=006205d2-dc3b-491a-8839-b59562ba52d1&k=58807

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018.

• If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
• If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 20:02, 9 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 3 external links on Niqāb. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20110608070521/http://www.yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=1140&p=report&a=2 to http://www.yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=1140&p=report&a=2
• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20081005074959/http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=1184&p=report&a=1 to http://www.yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=1184&p=report&a=1
• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20110617015116/http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=1126&p=lastpage&a=1 to http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=1126&p=lastpage&a=1

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018.

• If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
• If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 17:06, 22 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 2 external links on Niqāb. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20140323104956/http://www.suhaibwebb.com/ummah/women/hijab-niqab/is-wearing-the-niqab-obligatory-for-women-part-1-of-2-by-yusuf-al-qara%E1%B8%8Dawi-translated-by-u-%CA%BFabdullah/ to http://www.suhaibwebb.com/ummah/women/hijab-niqab/is-wearing-the-niqab-obligatory-for-women-part-1-of-2-by-yusuf-al-qara%E1%B8%8Dawi-translated-by-u-%CA%BFabdullah
• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20070926210529/http://www.salafimanhaj.com/pdf/SalafiManhaj_TheLastStraw.pdf to http://www.salafimanhaj.com/pdf/SalafiManhaj_TheLastStraw.pdf

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018.

• If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
• If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 04:58, 26 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry if I'm doing this wrong, but it seems to me that the opening section is contradictory but I don't have the knowledge to correct it, so hoping this will flag it up to someone who does.

The third line"According to the majority of Muslim scholars and Islamic schools of thought, face veiling is a requirement of Islam; " seems to be directly contradicted by the second paragraph "Within Muslim countries it is very contested and considered fringe." and the third "even in these countries, the niqab is neither a universal cultural custom nor is it culturally compulsory. In other parts of the Muslim world outside of the Arabian Peninsula, where the niqab has slowly spread to a much smaller extent, it is regarded warily by Sunni and non-Sunni Muslims alike "as a symbol of encroaching fundamentalism."" SherpaSam (talk) 02:00, 10 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for pointing that out. Someone had tempered with sourced text, changing its meaning. I've now reverted those changes. Eperoton (talk) 04:08, 12 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Is there a good reason to have three separate sections for "Criminalization and bans", "In different countries", and "Enforcement, encouragement, and bans"? As far as I can tell the three sections all have the same broad purpose, of discussing how the niqab is treated legally in different countries. The first one is almost all France, and the second and third are pretty much indistinguishable. I propose to merge all three with new section headings (I would choose "In different countries" to parallel the burqa article), as long as no one has any complaints. --Shmarrighan (talk) 06:09, 25 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps mention e.g., https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/05/face-masks-and-niqabs/ conflicts. Jidanni (talk) 02:54, 2 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for speedy deletion:

• Yemeni women traditional costume.jpg

You can see the reason for deletion at the file description page linked above. —Community Tech bot (talk) 06:53, 2 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

She's wearing tip to (almost) toe black clothing, the head cover can't be told from the rest. At least the legend should explain, not just state that she's "wearing a niqab". So, what's the clothing called? Not a burqa, as the eyes are showing plus it's probably not a single-piece bag-with-sleeves, or is it? So, what is her overall clothing called in Saudi Arabia? Arminden (talk) 01:24, 31 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I haven't read everything on this discussion page, only skimmed it, so if this issue has already been brought up, please excuse me.

It seems to me that talking of "discrimination" against the niqab (as in the section heading) is not doing justice to the real debates that take place even within Islam on the question of face veiling, and it would be more appropriate to talk about something like, "Places in which the Niqab is disapproved of."

To use, "discrimination," seems to me to be begging the question in presuming that it is wrong to refuse to allow people to wear a niqab in public or in public service roles, with no respect to the other side of the argument.

Moreover, some of what is said under that section is rather illogical. That a particular man was granted an annulment after being tricked into marrying the wrong women, by means of the use of a face-veil, is not an issue obviously relevant to controversy, let alone discrimination, about the general wearing of the niqab!

The conclusion that people did not want to be near someone because she was dressed like a Muslim and that is disapproved of, rather than because, for example, a covered face inherently causes people to find it difficult to relate to someone, is seriously tenuous. It would at least need evidence that people responded the same way to a woman in hijab but not to one wearing a medical mask that covered the same amount of her face. I do acknowledge that in that case, "asserted," is used, recognising the limitations of the research with regard to coming to that conclusion, so I do not feel this one would be majorly problematic if it was not labelled, "discrimination," through the section heading.

Finally it is not at all clear what the relevance of women taking part in protests wearing a niqab is to any controversies about wearing it at all, though those two examples may just need further explanation of the context.

Perhaps it might be worth considering what the point of the section is, retitling it, and tidying it up a bit?

FloweringOctopus (talk) 11:53, 10 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]