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Volume 30 | Miscellanea | Headscarf and Veiling
Headscarf and Veiling
Glimpses from Sumer to Islam
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- 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 Female Head Covering • Syria • Ancient Near East • Harsh enalties • Political Islam • Sumer • Veil • Ebla • Tertullian • Qur’an • Women • Paul • Zîna • Coeval documents • Legal provisions • Veiling • Islam • Death • Khimar • Palmyra • Discourse • Hijab • Austria • Mari • Head covering • Headscarf • Beret • St • Iconography • Middle Assyrian Period • Ancient Mesopotamia • Islamophobia • Islamic headscarf • Married women • Shariʾa • Linen textile • Assyria • Bonnet • Maraş • Jilbab • Burqa ban • Ebla texts • Transsylvania • Eblaite ritual of royalty • Hennin • Mesopotamia • Headscarf debate • Discourse analysis
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 | Numero pagine 206 | Dimensioni 16x23cm | Pubblicato 30 Agosto 2021 | Lingua en
Copyright © 2021 Roswitha Del Fabbro, Frederick Mario Fales, Hannes D. Galter. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
- Preface
- 30 Agosto 2021
- Foreword
- 30 Agosto 2021
- Introduction
- 30 Agosto 2021
- Veil and Headscarf: Five Aspects of a Cultural Phenomenon
- 30 Agosto 2021
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The Veil in Ancient Near Eastern Religions and Cultures
Some Remarks - 30 Agosto 2021
- Veiling in Ancient Near Eastern Legal Contexts
- 30 Agosto 2021
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To See or Not to See: The Issue of Visuality in Ancient Near Eastern Art
Images of Queens, High Priestesses, and Other Elite Women in the Third Millennium BC - 30 Agosto 2021
- The Practice of Veiling as an Expression of the Moral Behaviour of Women and Their Social Status in the Qurʾan
- 30 Agosto 2021
- On the Contemporary Debate About the Headscarf in Austria
- 30 Agosto 2021
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The Headscarf as a Discursive Battlefield
Positions of the Current Discourse on Muslim Veiling in Austria and Germany - 30 Agosto 2021
