Editorial policy
This site takes a position — that niqab is a legislated and commended practice. It does not adjudicate whether it is obligatory. Everything below follows from those two sentences.
Where the material comes from
Most of the reference content summarises Bersama Niqab by Wan Muhammad Izzat bin Wan Nor Anas al-Kutawi — roughly 41,500 words with 483 footnotes. Each page names the section it draws on.
Summarising compresses, and compression is where misrepresentation happens. The specific risk here is turning “legislated, with the obligation question left open” into “obligatory”. We treat that as a defect, not a simplification.
Disagreement is reported, not resolved
Scholars have differed on niqab for centuries. Where they differ, this site describes the shape of the disagreement and stops.
That includes reporting what cannot be established. The book states that the positions of al-Shāfiʿī, Mālik, Aḥmad and Ibnu Ḥazm on this question cannot be determined. Pages that resolved those into clean answers would not be simplifying scholarship; they would be inventing it.
Layers a reader can always see
Every quotation is labelled by what it is — Qurʾān, hadith, athar, or a quotation from the kitab literature. Reports carry the grading the book gives them; a hadith never appears here without it.
Pages marked reference are sourced summary and carry a verification date. Pages marked essay are the author’s own argument under his name. A reader should never have to guess which layer they are reading.
Arabic and translation
Primary quotations are shown with their Arabic original where it has been supplied and checked. Where it has not, the page says so in place of the text rather than presenting an incomplete entry as a finished one.
Nothing is invented — no verse, no report, no citation, no page number. Where a source is missing, the gap is visible.
What this site does not carry
The book is polemical in places, including toward named individuals and groups. That register is not carried into site copy. Where such a passage is quoted for accuracy, it is quoted as the source’s words with attribution, never as the site’s voice.
The book also uses the free-woman and enslaved-woman distinction of pre-Islamic and early Islamic society as a load-bearing part of its argument. It cannot be removed without removing the argument. It is presented as what the sources describe, with context, and never without.
Imagery
Photographs on this site show cloth. They do not show women — not faces, not bodies, not covered ones. A site arguing that a garment is not the sum of the woman wearing it should not illustrate itself with photographs of women.
The role of AI on this site
This site was built by a human with the help of AI, and its reference content is generated by AI from Bersama Niqab and the other sources named on each page. Every claim is checked against its source before publishing, but mistakes can still slip through.
Corrections
The author of Bersama Niqab states in his preface that he stands ready to retract any opinion of his that contradicts the truth, in his lifetime or after it. A site built on his work should hold itself to no less.
If something here is wrong, it will be corrected and the page will show when it changed. If you notice a mistake, please contact the editorial team at editorial@adjung.com.