So your source is Wikipedia ??
Read my post again, slowly and carefully, especially this part:
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Arabia's heathen females will be your judges, who cover not only the head, but the face also, so entirely, that they are content, with one eye free, to enjoy rather half the light than to prostitute the entire face. A female would rather see than be seen" (17:4)
And don't act like a typical Arab supremacist idiot. Instead of ranting, bring forward counter arguments if you can
How old are you?
No, my source is not Wikipedia. I used one quotation from Wikipedia which uses a source from Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press. Is that enough for you?
Nothing supremacist about educating a foreigner who acts like he knows it all while he clearly has a great lack of knowledge about the history of Arabia and the Arab world. I can give you plenty of Arabic sources as well that confirms what I say but I don't expect you to understand Arabic.
The only idiot here is you.
The exact origin of
Burqa is unknown but some earliest Christian writings mention that the Arabian women used similar forms of veiling even four to five centuries prior to the birth of Islamic Prophet Muhammad SAW. Most probably, this pre-Islamic Arab tradition (of wearing
Niqab), like many other Arab tribal traditions/customs, remained unchanged and was later mistaken as "Islamic ruling" rather than "Arab Custom" by some Muslim scholars and jurists.
Tertullian (c. 155 – c. 240 AD), a prolific early Christian author, making a reference to early Arabian women, urges married Christian women to cover their faces (like Arab women).
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Arabia's heathen females will be your judges, who cover not only the head, but the face also, so entirely, that they are content, with one eye free, to enjoy rather half the light than to prostitute the entire face. A female would rather see than be seen" (17:4)
http://www.tertullian.org/anf/anf04/anf04-09.htm#P671_166987
Nothing like the burqa (which is moreover a word of Farsi origin and originates from the Pardah dress worn in pre-Islamic Iran) was ever worn in Arabia. See post 95. Moreover many Greek/Roman sources use Arabia for anything east to coastal Sham. A niqab does not cover the entire face btw unlike the burqa.
Christian Arabs whether in Arabia or elsewhere in the Arab world wore at most a veil much reminiscent of the modern-day hijab.
Some Arab dresses from 4th century to 6th century. In other words just before the advent of Islam.
I don't see any burqa. Nor is a black burqa/niqab a part of our traditional dresses some of which I already posted in post 95. Sourced material as well. We know our history well.
None of our well-famous queens wore anything reminiscent of a burqa or niqab either.
Some Arabian Goddesses shared by many Semitic peoples and related to ancient Semitic pre-Abrahamic (themselves of Semitic origins) religions:
Controversial (for Islamist literalists) but nevertheless true account based on actual historical facts:
http://www.arabhumanists.org/arab-women-pre-islam/
I am afraid that foreigners like you that lack elementary knowledge about the history of Arabia should not make such absurd claims. Even your source (which at most mentions something similar to a niqab and worn by Christian Arab women = mostly modern-day Sham in other words as Christianity was very rare in Arabia 1800 years ago!) shatters the "burqa nonsense" which is not worn today in KSA or the Arab world and never was nor is a word of Arabic origin but Farsi (Pardah) to begin with.
Read again, slowly and carefully:
"Arabia's heathen females will be your judges, who cover not only the head, but the face also, so entirely, that they are content, with one eye free, to enjoy rather half the light than to prostitute the entire face. A female would rather see than be seen" (17:4)
You do realize that there were hardly any Christians living in Arabia between 155-240 AD right? Arabia in his writings means modern-day Sham most likely. Did I also not just tell you that Arabia has many geographical meanings in the writings of ancient Greeks and Romans. Try to do some research on your own.
Here is another source:
"It has been suggested that
the practice of wearing a veil – uncommon among the
Arab tribes prior to the rise of
Islam – originated in the
Byzantine Empire, and then spread.
[21]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veil
Source:
- Review of Herrin book and Michael Angold. Church and Society in Byzantium Under the Comneni, 1081–1261. Cambridge University Press. pp. 426–7 & ff;1995. ISBN 0-521-26986-5. see also John Esposito (2005). Islam: The Straight Path. Oxford University Press. pp. 98, 3rd Edition.
You are basically trying to convince ignorants here that burqa (something not worn anywhere in the Arab world) historically or EVEN today and which is a word of non-Arabic origin (Farsi and derives from the Pardah dress) is an Arabian invention is laughable.