This painting shows a woman from Dagestan (Caucasus) standing without her head covering, (hijab) holding her scarf in her hand.
She is standing between two heavily armed rival groups of men. The men have turned their face away from the woman (Ghair-Mahram).
This was often the tradition in Caucasus (Qafqaz) in order to stop the bloodshed.
When a woman felt the danger of casualties amongst the different clans, she would often enter among the rival fighting crowd of men. Whilst entering she would take off her head-covering, out of respect for the woman, the men would turn their eyes downwards and move away. This would eventually cease the fight.
The concept of dignity, chivalry and the extreme respect for women stemmed from both religious and traditional values. Women utilised this to help save many lives as well as bloodshed in the past.
