05-07-2007, 01:02 PM
I dont think it is accurate to assume that hijab is a rule that came with Islam. I know Jewish law tells the woman to cover (but after marriage) and the command for covering the womans hair is given I believe in 2 Corinthians where it says the woman who refuses to do so should be shorn. It seems to me that this was something exsisting among the people of the book prior to Islam.