The term (also , or ) () refers to any long and loose-fit coat or outer

garment Clothing (also known as clothes, garments, dress, apparel, or attire) is any item worn on a human human body, body. Typically, clothing is made of fabrics or textiles, but over time it has included garments made from animal skin and other thin s ...

worn by

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women. Wearers believe that this definition of fulfills the

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ic choice for a

hijab Hijab (, ) refers to head coverings worn by Women in Islam, Muslim women. Similar to the mitpaḥat/tichel or Snood (headgear), snood worn by religious married Jewish women, certain Christian head covering, headcoverings worn by some Christian w ...

. The is also known as by Persian speakers in

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and

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. The modern covers the entire body except the face and hands. Some women will also cover the hands with gloves and the face along with a niqāb. Jilbab_

Qur'an and hadith

A mention of the plural term of , , is found in the

Qur'an The Quran, also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation directly from God ('' Allāh''). It is organized in 114 chapters (, ) which consist of individual verses ('). Besides ...

, verse 33:59 (Surah Al-Ahzab). A popular translation by Yusuf Ali of the transliterated Arabic goes: A number of

hadith Hadith is the Arabic word for a 'report' or an 'account f an event and refers to the Islamic oral tradition of anecdotes containing the purported words, actions, and the silent approvals of the Islamic prophet Muhammad or his immediate circle ...

commenting on the above verse of the Qur'an (33:59) mention the .

Definition and extent

Since there are no pictures of 7th-century , nor any surviving garments, it is not at all clear if the modern is the same garment as that referred to in the

. The root of the word "Jilbab" itself is �لب According to Mu'jam Maqayees Al-Lugha by

Ibn Faris Ibn Faris (, , died Ray, Iran 395/1004) was a Persians, Persian linguist, scribe, scholar, philologist and lexicographer, As well as bearing the epithet ''al-Rāzī'' ('meaning 'from Ray'), ibn Fāris was also known variously by the epithets al-S ...

, the root has two meanings:

wo meanings One of them is the arrival with something from place to place, and the other is something that covers something...

Al-Shawkani Muḥammad ibn Ali ibn Muḥammad ibn Abd Allah, better known as al-Shawkānī () (1759–1834) was a prominent Yemeni Sunni Islamic scholar, jurist, theologian and reformer. Shawkani was one of the most influential proponents of Athari theolo ...

was of the view that a woman must cover her face with a Jilbab in front of non-Mahram men, and he takes this from a Hadith about pilgrimage and comments about its meaning. He also provides the views of both

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and

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... 'isha said:"The caravan would pass by us while we were with the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, in a state of consecration (i.e., during the pilgrimage). When they came close to us, one of us would lower her jilbab from her head over her face, and when they passed by us, we would uncover it."...

Sportswear

A type of athletic was developed by Nike in 2006, allowing women to play volleyball while still respecting a traditional clothing style.

In Indonesia

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, the term refers to a headscarf rather than a long and loose overgarment.(Geertz)

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