Antiquity Studies

Series | Antiquity Studies
Volume 30 | Edited book | Headscarf and Veiling

Headscarf and Veiling

Glimpses from Sumer to Islam
open access
    edited by
  • Roswitha Del Fabbro - President of A.C.CulturArti, Udine, Italia - email
  • Frederick Mario Fales - Università degli Studi di Udine, Italia - email
  • Hannes D. Galter - Universität Graz, Österreich - email

Abstract

This volume – which stems from an international conference held at the University of Graz on March 2, 2020, just before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic – represents a small, but specifically targeted contribution to a field of research and discussion that has increasingly come to the fore in the last two decades, regarding the practice of covering or veiling womens’ heads or faces over different times and places. “Dress is never value free”, as anthropologists state, and veiling functions as an assertion/communication of relationship dynamics in terms of gender, social and cultural identity, phases and stages of life (puberty, marriage, death) or of religious beliefs – even reaching to a typical dichotomy of our times, the female condition between tradition and modernity.

Keywords Eblaite ritual of royaltyAncient MesopotamiaZînaIslamic headscarfMesopotamiaEblaLegal provisionsQur’anSyriaTranssylvaniaJilbabDiscourseShariʾaMariAustriaHeadscarfPolitical IslamVeilingLinen textileDeathBonnetHead coveringPalmyraBurqa banHijabAncient Near EastKhimarHeadscarf debateIslamophobiaDiscourse analysisFemale Head CoveringHarsh enaltiesMiddle Assyrian PeriodPaulCoeval documentsIconographyIslamHenninMarried womenVeilWomenAssyriaStBeretSumerMaraşEbla textsTertullian

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-521-6 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-521-6 | ISBN (PRINT) 978-88-6969-522-3 | Number of pages 206 | Dimensions 16x23cm | Published Aug. 30, 2021 | Language en