[gogona]

Assalaamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullaahi wa Barakaatuh,

I'm looking for old videos which show the mode of dress of the average public in Muslim countries - Arab countries in particular. Would really like to see some old videos with women wearing niqaab as well.

I've seen a couple over the years, but I can't track down the sources.

One video (or picture?) I saw was that of women lining up at an Ottoman official's desk, every single one of them pretty much was in abaaya or niqaab.

Another one I saw at the local museum, which had Muslim artifacts on display. They had an old video of the outer covering of the ka'bah being paraded and transported to Makkaah Mukarramah thru different Muslim countries. You could clearly see the mode of dress of the general public, men and women in that video.

Jazaak Allaah Khayr.

[cabonuserollyo]

wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh,
You can look for Algerian videos under the french colonisation rule. Women used to wear white niqab. A sight many Algerian would find revolting now wa

[9V4i8xw1]

The funny thing is I have seen many images in museums and books (sadly not on the web) of European Christian peasants (both men and women) prior to the 20th century CE who also dressed in ways that would now definitely identify them as some sort of Muslim to the un-knowing modern eye.

Interestingly though, you will very rarely find this reflected in historical dramas or school educated materials produced in the modern West, otherwise it could undermine their long built up propaganda that Muslim dress is somehow abnormal and modern Western dress is normal if Western people saw their peasant ancestors, women covered up and wearing various types of hair covering, even under the chin, and men often with big beards and no mustache. Instead they are just shown the same regurgitated images of the fashionable rich, who wore degenerate clothes from an earlier point in history.