Dress Code: Background
There are all sorts of items of dress which are worn by Muslim women, and these vary all over the world. Sharia (Islamic law) does not require women to wear a burqa (Arab.:بُرقع; Persian: پرده ;Urdu: also known as chadri or paranja in Central Asia; transliterated burkha, bourkha, burka or burqu') is an enveloping outer garment worn by women in some Islamic traditions to cover their bodies when in public. Burqas belong to particular areas of the world, where they are considered normal dress. In other parts of the world the dress is totally different. The rule of dress for women is modesty; the word hijab(حجاب) means "cover," "screen," or "curtain,"and refers to both a specific form ofveilworn by some Muslim women and the modest Islamic style of dress in general.Muslim women are required to observe the hijab in front of any man they could theoretically marry. This means that hijab is not obligatory in front of the father, brothers, grandfathers, uncles or young children.Hijab does not 
need to be worn in front of other Muslim women, but there is debate about what can be revealed to non-Muslim women). Modesty rules are open to a wide range of interpretations. Some Muslim women wear full-body garments that only expose the eyes, although there is no Quranic text requiring this extreme. Some cover every part of the body except their face and hands. Some believe only their hair or their cleavage is compulsory to hide, and others do not observe any special dress rules.
Subjects Headings [Topic Tags]:Clothing and dress > Religious aspects (clothing and dress)Islam (clothing and dress)* Hijab (Islamic clothing) * Purdah *Veils > Religious aspects (veils)> Islam (veils)***Muslim women > Clothing * Burqas (Islamic clothing) -- Islamic clothing and dress - Veils....
Books on this topic from the Cornell online catalog
- Muslim Dress This Subject Guide brings together key content from Bloomsbury Fashion Central’s wide-ranging platform. From eBooks to business cases, this guide is your springboard for Sustainability in Fashion.
Definitions (Coverings)
Not all headscarves are burkas: 7 types of Muslim headwear
What's the difference between a hijab, niqab and burka, etc. [© 2015 BBC.]
Muslim Women's Clothing (Adapted from The Seattle Times, May 27, 2003) MS Word doc.
S.A.: What's That You're Wearing? A Guide to Muslim Veils The New York Times Online, 4 May 2016, 506 words, (English)
Choice? Who Decides? (Statistics)
How people in Muslim countries prefer women to dress [.pewresearch.org, 1/2014].
Preferred dress for women in Muslim countries [The data was gathered as a part of the "Middle Eastern Values Study" conducted by the Michigan Population Studies Center. Q&A with author of the U. Michigan study.
Dress Codes
- How people in Muslim countries prefer women to dress [pewresearch.org]
- University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research. Survey on preferred dress for women in Muslim countries.
- World Hijab Day Organization, Inc. (Non-Profit)
- Foroutan, Yaghoob (2021), Women’s Dress Codes in the Islamic Republic of Iran: State’s Gender Ideology Representation, Gender Issues 38 (2):121–133.
- Foroutan, Y. (2022), Demographic Analysis on Social Perceptions of Hijab in Contemporary Iran: Dimensions and Determinants, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 49, Issue 5: 736-746.
- Foroutan, Y. Women’s Dress Codes in the Islamic Republic of Iran: State’s Gender Ideology Representation,Gender Issues, (online first articles),
- Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress - SAGE Journals
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Hijab And Niqab In North America: Politics, Identity, And Media Representation / By Katherine Bullock. Published
- Women and the Islamic Veil: Deconstructing implications of orientalism, state, and feminism through an understanding of performativity, cultivation of piety and identity, and fashion. (Thesis, Hofstra 2014?)
- An Islamic Perspective on Women's Dress / by Muslim Women's League. December 1997
- Islam and Hijab" BBC. Retrieved December 2015
- Women's Performances of the Veil from Street to Stage (surrey, UK, 2001)
- Muslim Women, Dress Codes and Human Rights
- Muslim Veils -- from Hijab to Burqa. Apologetics Index
- US Newspaper Representation of Muslim and Arab Women Post 9/11 (Diss. Gerogia State U. 2007)
- Freedom, Norms, and the Ban of the Muslim Veil in France 1830-Present / By Hilary Black.
- The French islamic headscarf Bill in a perspective of sociology of Law / ISP - Institut des Sciences sociales du Politique.
- Brent Luvaas, “Shooting Street Style in Indonesia: A Photo Essay.” Clothing Cultures 1, no. 1 (2014): 59-81.
- Annelies Moors, “NiqaBitch and Princess Hijab: Niqab Activism, Satire, and Street Art.” Feminist Review 98, Islam in Europe (2011): 128-35.
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What the hijab means to me: From Nigeria to Uruguay, women share their thoughts and feelings about the hijab. [aljazeera.com/ 29 Nov 2016].
- Nondomination or Practices of Freedom? French Muslim Women, Foucault, and the Full Veil Ban / INES VALDEZ, Ohio State University. [American Political Science Review. Vol. 110, No. 1 February 2016].
The Islamic veil across Europe - BBC News
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List of Hijab Styles by Region The hijab, a religious headscarf, is worn by Muslim women to cover their hair and neck. It is an expression of their faith and personal relationship with God and it symbolizes modesty and privacy in Islam. Ultimately, it is the woman’s choice whether she prefers to wear one or not. Arab America's contribution writer, Caroline Umphlet, lists popular hijab styles from some Arab countries, varying by region. As a disclaimer, these are generalizations and of course, women from any country can wear the hijab as they prefer. |
Dress codes for women in Muslim countries 
Required Dress Codes for Women (Islamic States) scaled 2008. womanstats.org/
Hijab (Islamic scarf) by country [800x355] www.reddit.com - Search by imag
The 'Veil'- Titles from the Cornell online catalog
'Veil' Books from the online catalog-
The Experiences of Face Veil Wearers in Europe and the Law by One of the most remarkable aspects pertaining to the legal bans and societal debates on the face veil in Europe is that they rely on assumptions which lack any factual basis. To rectify this, Eva Brems researched the experiences of women who wear a face veil in Belgium and brought her research results together with those of colleagues who did the same in four other European countries. Their findings, which are outlined in this volume, move the current discussion on face veil bans forward by providing a much-needed insider perspective. In addition, a number of legal and social science scholars comment on the empirical findings and on the face veil issue more generally.ISBN: 9781107058309Publication Date: 2014-09-11 -
Anti-Veiling Campaigns in Turkey by The veiling and unveiling of women have been controversial issues in Turkey since the late-Ottoman period. It was with the advent of local campaigns against certain veils in the 1930s, however, that women's dress turned into an issue of national mobilisation in which gender norms would be redefined. In this comprehensive analysis of the anti-veiling campaigns in interwar Turkey, Sevgi Adak casts light onto the historical context within which the meanings of veiling and unveiling in Turkey were formed. By shifting the focus from the high politics of the elite to the implementation of state policies, the book situates the anti-veiling campaigns as a space where the Kemalist reforms were negotiated, compromised and resisted by societal actors. Using previously unpublished archival material, Adak reveals the intricacies of the Kemalist modernisation process and provides a nuanced reading of the gender order established in the early republic by looking at the various ways women responded to the anti-veiling campaigns. A major contribution to the literature on the social history of modern Turkey, the book provides a complex analysis of these campaigns which goes beyond a simple binary between liberation and oppression.ISBN: 9781784537920Publication Date: 2022-02-24 -
Anti-Veiling Campaigns in the Muslim World by In recent years bitter controversies have erupted across Europe and the Middle East about women's veiling, and especially their wearing of the face-veil or niqab. Yet the deeper issues contained within these controversies - secularism versus religious belief, individual freedom versus social or family coercion, identity versus integration - are not new but are strikingly prefigured by earlier conflicts. This book examines the state-sponsored anti-veiling campaigns which swept across wide swathes of the Muslim world in the interwar period, especially in Turkey and the Balkans, Iran, Afghanistan and the Soviet republics of the Caucasus and Central Asia. It shows how veiling was officially discouraged and ridiculed as backward and, although it was rarely banned, veiling was politicized and turned into a rallying-point for a wider opposition. Asking a number of questions about this earlier anti-veiling discourse and the policies flowing from it, and the reactions which it provoked, the book illuminates and contextualizes contemporary debates about gender, Islam and modernism.ISBN: 9780415711388Publication Date: 2014-04-25 -
Hijab : three modern Iranian seminarian perspectives by This book provides an overview of the range of seminarian thinking in Iran on the controversial topic of the hijab. During the modern period, Iran has suffered a great deal of conflict and confusion caused by the impact of Western views on the hijab in the 19th century, Riza Shah Pahlavi's 1936 decree banning Islamic head coverings, and the imposition of the veil in the wake of the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Ḥijāb addresses the differences of opinion among seminarians on the hijab in the Islamic Republic of Iran, focusing on three representative thinkers: Murtaza Mutahhari who held veiling to be compulsory, Ahmad Qabil who argued for the desirability of the hijab, and Muhsin Kadivar who considers it neither necessary nor desirable. In the first chapter, the views of these three scholars are contextualized within the framework known as 'new religious thinking' among the seminarians. Comprehending the hermeneutics of this new religious thinking is key to appreciating how and why the younger generation of scholars have offered divergent judgements about the hijab. Following the first chapter, the book is divided into three parallel sections, each devoted to one of the three seminarians. These present a chronological approach, and each scholar's position on the hijab is assessed with reference to historical specificity and their own general jurisprudential perspective. Extensive examples of the writings of the three scholars on the hijab are also provided. ISBN: 9781909942561Publication Date: 2021-09-03 -
Wearing the Niqab by Bringing niqab wearers' voices to the fore, discussing their narratives on religious agency, identity, social interaction, community, and urban spaces, Anna Piela situates women's accounts firmly within UK and US socio-political contexts as well as within media discourses on Islam. The niqab has recently emerged as one of the most ubiquitous symbols of everything that is perceived to be wrong with Islam- barbarity, backwardness, exploitation of women, and political radicalization. Yet all these notions are assigned to women who wear the niqab without their consultation; "niqab debates" are held without their voices being heard, and, when they do speak, their views are dismissed. However, the picture painted by the stories told here demonstrates that, for these women, religious symbols such as the niqab are deeply personal, freely chosen, multilayered, and socially situated. Wearing the Niqab gives voice to these women and their stories, and sets the record straight, enhancing understanding of the complex picture around niqab and religious identity and agency.ISBN: 9781350166035Publication Date: 2021-02-11 -
Faith and Fashion in Turkey by Turkey has witnessed remarkable sociocultural change under the regime of Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP), particularly regarding its religious communities. As individuals with pious identities have increasingly gained access to state power and accumulated economic influence, so religious appearances and practices have become more visible in Turkey's `secular' public spaces. More than this, consumption practices have changed and new Islamic and Islamist identities have emerged. This book investigates three of the most widespread faith-inspired communities in Turkey: the Gulen, Suleymanli and the Menzil. Nazli Alimen compares these communities, looking at their diverse interpretations of Islamic rules related to the body and dress, and how these different groups compete for power and control in Turkey. In tracing what motivates consumption practices, the book adds to the growing interest in the commercial aspects of modest and Islamic fashion. It also highlights the importance of clothing and bodily rituals (such as veiling, grooming and food choices) for the formation of community identities. Based on ethnographic research, Alimen analyses the relationship between the marketplace and religion, and shows how different communities interact with each other and state institutions. Of particular note are the varied expressions of Islamic masculinities and femininities at play. Appealing to a cross-disciplinary readership, the book will be relevant for scholars within Turkish Studies, Gender Studies, Islamic Studies, Fashion, Consumption Studies, Sociology of Religion and Middle Eastern Studies.ISBN: 9781350129320Publication Date: 2019-08-22 -
The Ashgate Research Companion to Veils and Veiling Practices by Veils and veiling are controversial topics in social and political life, generating debates across the world. The veil is enmeshed within a complex web of relations encompassing politics, religion and gender, and conflicts over the nature of power, legitimacy, belief, freedom, agency and emancipation. In recent years, the veil has become both a potent and unsettling symbol and a rallying-point for discourse and rhetoric concerning women, Islam and the nature of politics. Early studies in gender, doctrine and politics of veiling appeared in the 1970s following the Islamic revival and 're-veiling' trends that were dramatically expressed by 1979's Iranian Islamic revolution. In the 1990s, research focussed on the development of both an 'Islamic culture industry' and greater urban middle class consumption of 'Islamic' garments and dress styles across the Islamic world. In the last decade academics have studied Islamic fashion and marketing, the political role of the headscarf, the veiling of other religious groups such as Jews and Christians, and secular forms of modest dress. Using work from contributors across a range of disciplinary backgrounds and locations, this book brings together these research strands to form the most comprehensive book ever conceived on this topic. As such, this handbook will be of interest to scholars and students of fashion, gender studies, religious studies, politics and sociology. eiling of other religious groups such as Jews and Christians, and secular forms of modest dress. Using work from contributors across a range of disciplinary backgrounds and locations, this book brings together these research strands to form the most comprehensive book ever conceived on this topic. As such, this handbook will be of interest to scholars and students of fashion, gender studies, religious studies, politics and sociology.ISBN: 9781472455369Publication Date: 2017-06-28 -
What Is Veiling? by Ranging from simple head scarf to full-body burqa, the veil is worn by vast numbers of Muslim women around the world. What Is Veiling? explains one of the most visible, controversial, and least understood emblems of Islam. Sahar Amer's evenhanded approach is anchored in sharp cultural insight and rich historical context. Addressing the significance of veiling in the religious, cultural, political, and social lives of Muslims, past and present, she examines the complex roles the practice has played in history, religion, conservative and progressive perspectives, politics and regionalism, society and economics, feminism, fashion, and art. By highlighting the multiple meanings of veiling, the book decisively shows that the realities of the practice cannot be homogenized or oversimplified and extend well beyond the religious and political accounts that are overwhelmingly proclaimed both inside and outside Muslim-majority societies. Neither defending nor criticizing the practice, What Is Veiling? clarifies the voices of Muslim women who struggle to be heard and who, veiled or not, demand the right to live spiritual, personal, and public lives in dignity.ISBN: 9781469632414Publication Date: 2017-02-01 -
Islamic Fashion by The interpretation and implementation of the basic Islamic rules for women¿s dress vary from country to country and are subject to cultural and individual styles. Muslimahs in Northern Africa and the Middle East dress quite differently from those in Pakistan and Southeast Asia. When it comes to decoration, a specific type of ornamental design has been developed in the Muslim world, which employs a variety of geometric patterns, stylized floral elements and ornate calligraphy. On clothing this decoration often appears in the form of embroidery. PEPIN® 8: ISLAMIC FASHION contains historical images of dress from several Muslim regions, examples of modern interpretations, and many pictures of modern Islamic fashion. Also included are photographs and drawings of embroidered, printed and woven decorative elements. CD with Designs included.ISBN: 9789460090080Publication Date: 2012-12-10 -
Veiled Sentiments by First published in 1986, Lila Abu-Lughod's Veiled Sentiments has become a classic ethnography in the field of anthropology. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Abu-Lughod lived with a community of Bedouins in the Western Desert of Egypt for nearly two years, studying gender relations, morality, and the oral lyric poetry through which women and young men express personal feelings. The poems are haunting, the evocation of emotional life vivid. But Abu-Lughod's analysis also reveals how deeply implicated poetry and sentiment are in the play of power and the maintenance of social hierarchy. What begins as a puzzle about a single poetic genre becomes a reflection on the politics of sentiment and the complexity of culture. This thirtieth anniversary edition includes a new afterword that reflects on developments both in anthropology and in the lives of this community of Awlad 'Ali Bedouins, who find themselves increasingly enmeshed in national political and social formations. The afterword ends with a personal meditation on the meaning--for all involved--of the radical experience of anthropological fieldwork and the responsibilities it entails for ethnographers.ISBN: 9780520292499Publication Date: 2016-09-06 -
A Quiet Revolution by In Cairo in the 1940s, Leila Ahmed was raised by a generation of women who never dressed in the veils and headscarves their mothers and grandmothers had worn. To them, these coverings seemed irrelevant to both modern life and Islamic piety. Today, however, the majority of Muslim women throughout the Islamic world again wear the veil. Why, Ahmed asks, did this change take root so swiftly, and what does this shift mean for women, Islam, and the West? When she began her study, Ahmed assumed that the veil's return indicated a backward step for Muslim women worldwide. What she discovered, however, in the stories of British colonial officials, young Muslim feminists, Arab nationalists, pious Islamic daughters, American Muslim immigrants, violent jihadists, and peaceful Islamic activists, confounded her expectations. Ahmed observed that Islamism, with its commitments to activism in the service of the poor and in pursuit of social justice, is the strain of Islam most easily and naturally merging with western democracies' own tradition of activism in the cause of justice and social change. It is often Islamists, even more than secular Muslims, who are at the forefront of such contemporary activist struggles as civil rights and women's rights. Ahmed's surprising conclusions represent a near reversal of her thinking on this topic. Richly insightful, intricately drawn, and passionately argued, this absorbing story of the veil's resurgence, from Egypt through Saudi Arabia and into the West, suggests a dramatically new portrait of contemporary Islam.ISBN: 9780300170955Publication Date: 2011-04-29 -
Modest Fashion by Modest dressing, both secular and religious, is a growing trend across the world, yet so far it has been given little serious attention and is rarely seen as fashion. Modest Fashion uniquely studies and addresses both the consumers and the producers of modest clothing. It examines the growing number of women who, for reasons of religion, faith or personal preference, decide to cover their bodies and dress in a way that satisfies their spiritual and stylistic requirements. These are women who are making fashionable the art of dressing modestly. Scholars and journalists, fashion designers and bloggers explore the emergence of a niche market for modest fashion and examine how this operates across and between faiths, and in relation to 'secular' dressers.ISBN: 9780857722256Publication Date: 2013-05-30 -
Islamic Fashion and Anti-Fashion by Introducing innovative new research from international scholars working on Islamic fashion and its critics, Islamic Fashion and Anti-Fashion provides a global perspective on muslim dress practices. The book takes a broad geographic sweep, bringing together the sartorial experiences of Muslims in locations as diverse as Paris, the Canadian Prairie, Swedish and Italian bath houses and former socialist countries of Eastern Europe. What new Islamic dress practices and anxieties are emerging in these different locations? How far are they shaped by local circumstances, migration histories, particular religious traditions, multicultural interfaces and transnational links? To what extent do developments in and debates about Islamic dress cut across such local specificities, encouraging new channels of communication and exchange? With original contributions from the fields of anthropology, fashion studies, media studies, religious studies, history, geography and cultural studies, Islamic Fashion and Anti-Fashion will be of interest to students and scholars working in these fields as well as to general readers interested in the public presence of Islam in Europe and America.ISBN: 9780857853349Publication Date: 2013-09-18 -
Why the French Don't Like Headscarves by The French government's 2004 decision to ban Islamic headscarves and other religious signs from public schools puzzled many observers, both because it seemed to infringe needlessly on religious freedom, and because it was hailed by many in France as an answer to a surprisingly wide range of social ills, from violence against females in poor suburbs to anti-Semitism. Why the French Don't Like Headscarves explains why headscarves on schoolgirls caused such a furor, and why the furor yielded this law. Making sense of the dramatic debate from his perspective as an American anthropologist in France at the time, John Bowen writes about everyday life and public events while also presenting interviews with officials and intellectuals, and analyzing French television programs and other media. Bowen argues that the focus on headscarves came from a century-old sensitivity to the public presence of religion in schools, feared links between public expressions of Islamic identity and radical Islam, and a media-driven frenzy that built support for a headscarf ban during 2003-2004. Although the defense of laïcité (secularity) was cited as the law's major justification, politicians, intellectuals, and the media linked the scarves to more concrete social anxieties--about "communalism," political Islam, and violence toward women. Written in engaging, jargon-free prose, Why the French Don't Like Headscarves is the first comprehensive and objective analysis of this subject, in any language, and it speaks to tensions between assimilation and diversity that extend well beyond France's borders.ISBN: 0691125066Publication Date: 2006-10-15 -
Unveiling the truth : why 32 Muslim women wear the full-face veil in France by ISBN: 1936133482Publication Date: 2011. -
Veil by Shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Folklore Award 2000. In the 1970s, often to the consternation of parents and siblings, certain progressive young Arab women voluntarily donned the veil. The movement, which rapidly expanded and continues to gather momentum, has sparked controversy within Islamic culture, as well as reactions ranging from perplexity to outrage from those outside it. Western feminist commentators have been particularly vociferous in decrying the veil, which they glibly interpret as a concrete manifestation of patriarchal oppression. However, most Western observers fail to realize that veiling, which has a long and complex history, has been embraced by many Arab women as both an affirmation of cultural identity and a strident feminist statement. Not only does the veil de-marginalize women in society, but it also represents an expression of liberation from colonial legacies. In short, contemporary veiling is more often than not about resistance. By voluntarily removing themselves from the male gaze, these women assert their allegiance to a rich and varied tradition, and at the same time preserve their sexual identity. Beyond this, however, the veil also communicates exclusivity of rank and nuances in social status and social relations that provide telling insights into how Arab culture is constituted. Further, as the author clearly demonstrates, veiling is intimately connected with notions of the self, the body and community, as well as with the cultural construction of identity, privacy and space. This provocative book draws on extensive original fieldwork, anthropology, history and original Islamic sources to challenge the simplistic assumption that veiling is largely about modesty and seclusion, honor and shame.ISBN: 1859739245Publication Date: 1999-08-01 -
Islamic Veiling in Legal Discourse by Islamic Veiling in Legal Discourse looks at relevant law and surrounding discourses in order to examine the assumptions and limits of the debates around the issue of Islamic veiling that has become so topical in recent years. For some, Islamic veiling indicates a lack of autonomy, the oppression of women and the threat of Islamic radicalism to western secular values. For others, it suggests a positive autonomous choice, a new kind of gender equality and a legitimate exercise of one's freedom of religion - a treasured right in democratic societies. This book finds that, across seemingly diverse legal and political traditions, a set of discursive frameworks - the preoccupation with autonomy and choice; the imperative of gender equality; and a particular western understanding of religion and religious subjectivity - shape the positions of both proponents and opponents of various restrictions on Islamic veiling. Rather than take a position on one or the other side of the debate, the book focuses on the frameworks themselves, highlighting their limitationsISBN: 9780415565509Publication Date: 2012-06-18 -
Rethinking Muslim Women and the Veil by Introduction
Ḥijāb in the colonial era
Perceptions and experiences of wearing ḥijāb in Toronto
Multiple meanings of ḥijāb
Mernissi and the discourse on the veil
An alternative theory of the veil
Conclusion.ISBN: 1565642872Publication Date: 2002-01-01 -
Muslim Fashion by In the shops of London's Oxford Street, girls wear patterned scarves over their hair as they cluster around makeup counters. Alongside them, hip twenty-somethings style their head-wraps in high black topknots to match their black boot-cut trousers. Participating in the world of popular mainstream fashion--often thought to be the domain of the West--these young Muslim women are part of an emergent cross-faith transnational youth subculture of modest fashion. In treating hijab and other forms of modest clothing as fashion, Reina Lewis counters the overuse of images of veiled women as "evidence" in the prevalent suggestion that Muslims and Islam are incompatible with Western modernity. Muslim Fashion contextualizes modest wardrobe styling within Islamic and global consumer cultures, interviewing key players including designers, bloggers, shoppers, store clerks, and shop owners. Focusing on Britain, North America, and Turkey, Lewis provides insights into the ways young Muslim women use multiple fashion systems to negotiate religion, identity, and ethnicity. ISBN: 9780822359142Publication Date: 2015-09-25 -
The Veil and the Male Elite by ISBN: 9780201632217Publication Date: 1992-12-21Convinced that the veil is a symbol of unjust male authority over women, in The Veil and the Male Elite, Moroccan feminist Fatima Mernissi aims to investigate the origins of the practice in the first Islamic community. -
Visibly Muslim by Muslims in Britain and cosmopolitan cities throughout the West are increasingly choosing to express their identity and faith through dress, whether by wearing colourful headscarves, austere black garments or creative new forms of Islamic fashion. Why is dress such an important issue for Muslims? Why is it such a major topic of media interest and international concern? This timely and important book cuts through media stereotypes of Muslim appearances, providing intimate insights into what clothes really mean to the people who design and wear them. It examines how different ideas of fashion, politics, faith, freedom, beauty, modesty and cultural diversity are articulated by young British Muslims as they seek out clothes which best express their identities, perspectives and concerns. It also explores the wider social and political effects of their clothing choices on the development of transnational cultural formations and multicultural urban spaces. Based on contemporary ethnographic research, the book is an essential read for students and scholars of religion, sociology, cultural studies, anthropology and fashion as well as anyone interested in cultural diversity and the changing face of cosmopolitan cities throughout the world.ISBN: 9781845204327Publication Date: 2010-03-15 -
Veiling in Africa by The tradition of the veil, which refers to various cloth coverings of the head, face, and body, has been little studied in Africa, where Islam has been present for more than a thousand years. These lively essays raise questions about what is distinctive about veiling in Africa, what religious histories or practices are reflected in particular uses of the veil, and how styles of veils have changed in response to contemporary events. Together, they explore the diversity of meanings and experiences with the veil, revealing it as both an object of Muslim piety and an expression of glamorous fashion.ISBN: 9780253008282Publication Date: 2013-06-04 -
Anadolu kadın başlıkları by Call Number: HQ1726.7 .B34 2014ISBN: 9786054922536Publication Date: Turkey : Alter Yayınları, 2014.
Spotlight
Hijab campaign tweets pulled by Council of Europe after ...
“Aren’t you pretty? Unveil yourself!” Colonial poster (1958) enjoining Algerian Muslim women to stop wearing their veil, playing on double meaning of the word “unveil.” Similarly, the phrase “Aren’t you pretty?” is ambiguous in whether it exclaims “you are pretty!” or asks “are you hiding the fact that you’re not?”
Frantz Fanon’s first chapter of his book L’An V de la Révolution Algérienne (“The Fifth Year of the Algerian Revolution,” translated into A Dying Colonialism, 1959), entitled “Algeria unveiled.”
The Islamic veil across Europe - BBC News
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- Austria to ban full-face veil in public places * 31 January 2017
- Women in face veils detained as France enforces ban * 11 April 2011
- Chechnya women's Islamic dress code: Russia blamed * 10 March 2011
- Barcelona to ban Islamic veils in some public spaces * 15 June 2010
- Belgian ban on full veils comes into force * 23 July 2011
- Why Muslim women wear the veil * 5 October 2006
Mediating Faith and Style: Museums Awake to Muslim Fashions
Nike condemned for putting hijab on Iranian mathematician who chose not to wear one. Maryam Mirzakhani, first woman to win the Fields Medal, opted not to cover her hair
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The Quran says that Muslim men – not women – should be the first to observe hijab / QASIM RASHID [30 March 2017] The Independent, U.K.
Men, please stop mansplaining the hijab to Muslim women / Yasmin Choudhury. independent.co.uk,
As Muslim women, we ask you not to wear the hijab in the name of interfaith solidarity The authors argue that the Koran does not require women to wear a hijab, but that they are being bullied into covering themselves by conservative Shiite and Sunni sects. By Asra Q. Nomani and Hala Arafa washingtonpost.com @.
Seljuk and Ottoman Women: Women and the Arts; Clothing Styles.
Turkish women unveiled [2006?] Video 1 videodisc (52 min.) New York, NY : Women Make Movies, [2006?] In English and Turkish with English subtitles "In this thought-provoking documentary, veiled and unveiled women explore relationships between Islam and secularism in present-day Turkey, where millions of women, many of them educated and urban, wear the headscarf or hijab."--Container.
Audiovisuals - Accessible
How do Muslims Think Women Should Dress? [BBC News, 7:20 mins.]
Gamal Abdel-Nasser Recalling a 1953 Conversation on Hijab with Muslim Brotherhood Ikhwan's General Guide.
Joan Wallach Scott on The Politics of the Veil + a series of short symposium interviews of experts, Bowen included, about the French headscarf affairs: [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHsD5__5wuM&feature=related ] [ http://conversations.berkeley.edu/content/joan-wallach-scott].
Interview of the two Levy sisters, who in 2003 (before the March 2004 law) were expelled from French school for wearing hijabs. They appear with their father (who is Jewish while their mum is an atheist of Moroccan origin): http://www.ina.fr/video/I08357759/interview-lila-et-alma-levy-omari-video.html
Here, an exceptional document, the report (broadcast on French tv) on "The Veil, a French hysteria", which features the interview of one of the first 3 junior high school students expelled in 1989 from their school at the time of the very first hijab affair. She is now 40, living in Tunisia, and had never been interviewed before. She relates what actually happened during that campaign that led to their exclusion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5F7k58RcU8
Two 50-mn documentary by the anthropologist of religions Agnes de Feo featuring French women who were the burqa and niqab, before and after it was banned (English subtitles):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0HhhaD_NZU&t=1s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZh0PnxlgaE