This has led to a distinction between the hijab (literally "covering up" in Arabic ... it will be difficult to know how prevalent the full-face veil is. What we do know is that in the 2011 ...

He highlights that the covering of the head and hair is different from that of the face. “Originally the ‘Hijab’ was meant as a means for isolating women, with the claim - by men - that this ...

I don’t wear a hijab because I’ve never been expected ... No credible scholar, I think, has mandated that full face-covering veils are compulsory (they are, in fact, forbidden at Hajj, the ...

So when balaclavas, which essentially cover the same area as a hijab, recently began trending ... when Kim Kardashian dons an all-black, face-covering get-up to the Met Gala, but barbaric when ...