Wearing the veil is seen as cultural, social and religious challenges to the rights of Muslim women. Historically, veiling has been prevalent in countries that Arabs had contact with, such as Syria and Palestine. Veiling was connected with social status. Early Greeks, Romans, Jews and Assyrians all practiced veiling to some degree (Ahmed, 1992, 55). In this paper, I seek to show some reasons why veiling is observed by Muslims women and her rights to wear it.

Leila Ahmed an Islamic scholar says that veiling is nowhere prescribed in the Qur’an and the only verses dealing with...

It was not merely the land of spices, but the land of many philosophies and cultural forms. Arab travellers came here not only in search of merchandise, but knowledge and information. Each discovery has had its own identity. Hence there are many discoveries of India. A reading of Arab geographers’ Knowledge of Southern India reveals it.

Islam became the religion of the Arabs in the 7th Century A.D. This spiritual awakening was accompanied by tremendous consolidation among the Arabs, who were soon attempting to establish their supremacy by overthrowing...