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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 ZînaBurqa banAncient MesopotamiaEblaQur’anPalmyraIslamophobiaPaulJilbabAustriaLegal provisionsStHeadscarf debateEblaite ritual of royaltyAssyriaDiscourse analysisWomenBeretHeadscarfHarsh enaltiesIslamMiddle Assyrian PeriodVeilLinen textileSumerHead coveringAncient Near EastSyriaIconographyIslamic headscarfBonnetMariFemale Head CoveringDiscourseEbla textsVeilingPolitical IslamTranssylvaniaHenninMarried womenHijabDeathTertullianMaraşShariʾaCoeval documentsMesopotamiaKhimar

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