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Women with a burqa and a child, in Afghanistan
A Burqa is a piece of clothing. It is for Muslim women. They can wear it as an outer garment. It only leaves a semi-transparent mesh in front of the woman's eyes, so she can see. The rest of the body is covered by it.
Other garments for Muslim women that cover less of their body are the hijab and the niqab. People often call the hijab and the niqab 'burqa' because they do not know the right word for those garments.
In Islamic texts
The Quran does not say that women need to cover their faces with a veil, or cover their bodies with the full-body burqa.
Burqas around the world
In France, Italy, and the Netherlands wearing a burqa in public is illegal.
Images for kids
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Antoin Sevruguin, Two Veiled Women and a Child. Late 19th century, Qajar. Brooklyn Museum
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Algerian women wearing a traditional haïk
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An 1842 Lithography work by James Rattray showing a Persian (Qizilbash) woman in Afghanistan with a burqa behind her.
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Afghan women in shuttlecock burqas wait outside a USAID-supported health care clinic.
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A member of the Haredi burqa sect in Meah Shearim, Israel