Headscarf and Veiling
Glimpses from Sumer to Islam
open access
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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 Islamic headscarf • Sumer • Qur’an • Syria • Ebla • Jilbab • Headscarf debate • Eblaite ritual of royalty • Middle Assyrian Period • Ancient Mesopotamia • Khimar • Hennin • Austria • Assyria • Coeval documents • Female Head Covering • Linen textile • Palmyra • Transsylvania • Veiling • Ancient Near East • Bonnet • Discourse • Maraş • Shariʾa • Zîna • Married women • Veil • Ebla texts • Burqa ban • Legal provisions • Mesopotamia • Women • Headscarf • Mari • St • Discourse analysis • Harsh enalties • Hijab • Islamophobia • Islam • Paul • Political Islam • Tertullian • Death • Iconography • Beret • Head covering
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
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- Preface
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- Foreword
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- Introduction
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The Veil in Ancient Near Eastern Religions and Cultures
Some Remarks - Aug. 30, 2021
- Veiling in Ancient Near Eastern Legal Contexts
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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 - Aug. 30, 2021
- The Practice of Veiling as an Expression of the Moral Behaviour of Women and Their Social Status in the Qurʾan
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The Headscarf as a Discursive Battlefield
Positions of the Current Discourse on Muslim Veiling in Austria and Germany - Aug. 30, 2021