Bisht (clothing)

Bisht
بِشْت
Sheikh Chassib, son of Sheikh Khazʿal bin Jaber, Crown Prince of the Emirate of Mohammerah, wearing the adorned bisht affiliated with the clothing, in a picture of 1923.
TypeArab clothing
MaterialCamel hair and Goat wool and for the wealthy pure gold thread
Place of originArabian peninsula
Introduced2300 BCE

A bisht (Arabic: بِشْت; plural: بِشُوت bishūt and بْشُوت bshūt), known in some Arabic spoken dialects as mishlaḥ (Arabic: مِشْلَح) or ʿabāʾ (Arabic: عَبَاء), is a traditional men’s cloak popular in the Arab world, and worn in general for thousands of years.[1][2]

According to ancient Christian and Hebrew paintings, a similar robe was worn in the days of Jesus by the people of the Levant.

The bisht is a flowing outer cloak worn over a thawb.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference almukhtar was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ *Urbanarabian. "B – Sweater – Over Sized Sweater". Urbanarabian. Archived from the original on 2016-09-11. Retrieved 2016-05-23.

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