Haik (garment)

The haik (Arabic: حايك) is a traditional women's garment worn in Algeria.^[1]^[2] It can be white or black, though is usually white. It consists of a rectangular fabric covering the whole body,^[3] 6 by 2.2 metres (19.7 ft × 7.2 ft) in length, rolled up then held at the waist by a belt and then brought back to the shoulders to be fixed by fibulae.

^ E.J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam 1913-1936. BRILL. 1987. p. 220. ISBN 90-04-08265-4.
^ "The Shroud Over Algeria: Femicide, Islamism and the Hijab". Archived from the original on 2014-01-26. Retrieved 2016-08-09.
^ Ambroise Queffélec; Yacine Derradji; Valéry Debov; Dalila Smaali-Dekdouk; Yasmina Cherrad-Benchefra (2002). Le français en Algérie: Lexique et dynamique des langues. Brussels: Duculot. p. 343. ISBN 2-8011-1294-1.

[1] E.J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam 1913-1936. BRILL. 1987. p. 220. ISBN 90-04-08265-4.

[2] "The Shroud Over Algeria: Femicide, Islamism and the Hijab". Archived from the original on 2014-01-26. Retrieved 2016-08-09.

[3] Ambroise Queffélec; Yacine Derradji; Valéry Debov; Dalila Smaali-Dekdouk; Yasmina Cherrad-Benchefra (2002). Le français en Algérie: Lexique et dynamique des langues. Brussels: Duculot. p. 343. ISBN 2-8011-1294-1.

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