Battoulah

A Khaleeji woman wearing the battoulah.
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Battoulah (Arabic: بطوله, romanized: baṭṭūleh; Persian: بتوله), also called Gulf Burqah (Arabic: البرقع الخليجي),[1][note 1] is a metallic-looking fashion mask traditionally worn by Khaleeji Arab and Bandari Persian Muslim women in the area around the Persian Gulf.[5][3]

The mask is mainly worn in Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates as well as some parts of eastern Saudi Arabia and southern Iran.[2][6] The mask usually indicates that the wearer is married.[1] Historically, it was also used to fool enemies into thinking that the women they spied from a distance were actually men.[7]

  1. ^ a b "History Project: The burqa". The National. 1 December 2014.
  2. ^ a b "The story behind the mask". thezay.org. August 2019. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
  3. ^ a b "In pictures: Iran and the masks of the Minab market". The Middle East Eye. 7 February 2019.
  4. ^ "The beautiful Iranian women captured in their boregheh masks". News Nation TV. 11 February 2019.
  5. ^ Hameli, Asmaa Al (2014-12-01). "History Project: The burqa". The National. Retrieved 2024-06-16.
  6. ^ ""البرقع" أيقونة حوار وجدل بين السعوديين في "يوم التأسيس"" (in Arabic). Independent Arabia. 22 February 2022.
  7. ^ "The masked women of southern Iran". Qanatara.de. Retrieved 8 September 2021.


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