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
Aims & Scope
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 Married women Transsylvania Zîna Mesopotamia Islam Female Head Covering Iconography Ancient Mesopotamia Tertullian Discourse analysis Hennin Ancient Near East Ebla Palmyra Shariʾa Coeval documents Islamophobia Middle Assyrian Period Ebla texts St Veil Bonnet Maraş Qur’an Head covering Mari Syria Beret Burqa ban Headscarf Political Islam Austria Paul Linen textile Eblaite ritual of royalty Legal provisions Islamic headscarf Veiling Death Harsh enalties Hijab Khimar Women Assyria Headscarf debate Sumer Jilbab Discourse
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-521-6 | ISBN (PRINT) 978-88-6969-522-3 | e-ISSN 978-88-6969-521-6 | Number of pages 206 | Dimensions 16x23cm | Published Aug. 30, 2021 | Language en
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