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Face covering before Islam

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Face covering before Islam

Face covering is first recorded, on the evidence assembled here, in ancient Greece: Assyrian law is about head-veiling, not the face — followed by Christian writers and pre-Islamic Arabia. The evidence is thin and uneven, and nobody can show it was universal.

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