Is the enforcement of Hijab wearing for Muslim women a recent occurrence?
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Here is an article that mentions a "universal decree requiring the face veil for Muslim women" which was supposedly imposed "around the time of the Mameluke dynasty of Egypt in the 13th century."
These rulers issued several decrees imposing the full veil on women when they appeared in public. What was once a mark of aristocracy and nobility now came to be imposed on the commoner as religious dogma. It then came to be regarded as an Islamic symbol in most Muslim lands. Hence [most] Muslim societies adopted the veil in one form or another.
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