Posted: Apr 02, 2019 11:15 am
We do! Follow the link to the BBC show, or try to find and watch The Accent of Women to the very end, it's quite a story. One Muslim lady was inconsolable when the Sumerian (not Akkad, my bad) stone tablet was translated for her and she saw that girls were shackled with hijab, not empowered by it.Svartalf wrote:I know that the 'modesty" customs in the Arabian peninsula are pre islamic in nature, but you'll have to admit that islam has kept them up to a high degree... as to their origins, I can't tell, I don't think we have much in the way of Akkadian or other antique middle east depiction of women... at least, I don't remember seeing any such in the Oriental Antiquities section of the Louvre, whereas the Egyptian, Greek and Roman sections provide quite a bit of nude or scantily clothed female flesh