Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Ladies Islamic Fashion

You may have seen photographs like the two below, usually in a humorous framework, regarding the more extreme Muslim custom of covering almost all of a woman's body, and not only her hair or her face in an act of modesty.




Well, here's one from the Ottoman Empire period in the Land of Israel around the First World War, 1900-1914:



At the least, they aren't dressed all in somber black.

5 comments:

Suzanne Pomeranz said...

The first one is a hoot!

Anonymous said...

Source? Context? Or is the point just glib, anecdotal bigotry?

YMedad said...

bigotry? why?
you dispute that Muslim women dress that way?
did I say it's wrong? that's it's over-modest? what?

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