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Author : Emma Tarlo
Release : 2020
Genre : Burqas (Islamic clothing)
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 634/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Visibly Muslim by : Emma Tarlo
Download or read book Visibly Muslim written by Emma Tarlo. This book was released on 2020. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- Biographies in dress -- Geographies of hijab -- Navigations of style -- Diversity contested -- Covering concerns -- Hijab online -- Islamic fashion scape.
Author : Magdalena Craciun
Release : 2017-09-07
Genre : Design
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 372/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Islam, Faith, and Fashion by : Magdalena Craciun
Download or read book Islam, Faith, and Fashion written by Magdalena Craciun. This book was released on 2017-09-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of religion and dress in Turkey has been debated at great length both in academia and the media. Through in-depth ethnographic research into the Turkish fashion market and the work of a category of new comers, namely headscarf-wearing fashion professionals, Islam, Faith and Fashion examines entrepreneurship in this market and the aesthetic desirability, religious suitability, and ethical credibility of fashionable Islamic dress. What makes a fashionable outfit Islamically appropriate? What makes an Islamically appropriate outfit fashionable? What are the conditions, challenges and constraints an entrepreneur faces in this market, and how do they market their products? Is the presumed oxymoronic nature of Islamic fashion a challenge or a burden? Through case studies and ethnographic portraits, Craciun questions the commercialization of Islamic dress and tackles the delicate and often incompatible relationship between clothing worn in recognition of religious belief and clothing worn purely because it is fashionable. This timely analysis of fashion, religion, ethics, and aesthetics presents dress as a disputed and a contested locus of modernity. Islam, Faith and Fashion will be essential reading for students of fashion, anthropology, and material and visual culture.
Author : Reina Lewis
Release : 2015-09-25
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 142/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Muslim Fashion by : Reina Lewis
Download or read book Muslim Fashion written by Reina Lewis. This book was released on 2015-09-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the shops of London's Oxford Street, girls wear patterned scarves over their hair as they cluster around makeup counters. Alongside them, hip twenty-somethings style their head-wraps in high black topknots to match their black boot-cut trousers. Participating in the world of popular mainstream fashion—often thought to be the domain of the West—these young Muslim women are part of an emergent cross-faith transnational youth subculture of modest fashion. In treating hijab and other forms of modest clothing as fashion, Reina Lewis counters the overuse of images of veiled women as "evidence" in the prevalent suggestion that Muslims and Islam are incompatible with Western modernity. Muslim Fashion contextualizes modest wardrobe styling within Islamic and global consumer cultures, interviewing key players including designers, bloggers, shoppers, store clerks, and shop owners. Focusing on Britain, North America, and Turkey, Lewis provides insights into the ways young Muslim women use multiple fashion systems to negotiate religion, identity, and ethnicity.
Author : Magdalena Craciun
Release : 2017-09-07
Genre : Design
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 399/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Islam, Faith, and Fashion by : Magdalena Craciun
Download or read book Islam, Faith, and Fashion written by Magdalena Craciun. This book was released on 2017-09-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of religion and dress in Turkey has been debated at great length both in academia and the media. Through in-depth ethnographic research into the Turkish fashion market and the work of a category of new comers, namely headscarf-wearing fashion professionals, Islam, Faith, and Fashion examines entrepreneurship in this market and the aesthetic desirability, religious suitability, and ethical credibility of fashionable Islamic dress. What makes a fashionable outfit Islamically appropriate? What makes an Islamically appropriate outfit fashionable? What are the conditions, challenges and constraints an entrepreneur faces in this market, and how do they market their products? Is the presumed oxymoronic nature of Islamic fashion a challenge or a burden? Through case studies and ethnographic portraits, Craciun questions the commercialization of Islamic dress and tackles the delicate and often incompatible relationship between clothing worn in recognition of religious belief and clothing worn purely because it is fashionable. This timely analysis of fashion, religion, ethics, and aesthetics presents dress as a disputed and a contested locus of modernity. Islam, Faith, and Fashion will be essential reading for students of fashion, anthropology, and material and visual culture.
Author : Nazli Alimen
Release : 2018-02-28
Genre : Religion
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 794/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Faith and Fashion in Turkey by : Nazli Alimen
Download or read book Faith and Fashion in Turkey written by Nazli Alimen. This book was released on 2018-02-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turkey has witnessed remarkable sociocultural change under the regime of Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP), particularly regarding its religious communities. As individuals with pious identities have increasingly gained access to state power and accumulated economic influence, so religious appearances and practices have become more visible in Turkey's `secular' public spaces. More than this, consumption practices have changed and new Islamic and Islamist identities have emerged. This book investigates three of the most widespread faith-inspired communities in Turkey: the Gulen, Suleymanli and the Menzil. Nazli Alimen compares these communities, looking at their diverse interpretations of Islamic rules related to the body and dress, and how these different groups compete for power and control in Turkey. In tracing what motivates consumption practices, the book adds to the growing interest in the commercial aspects of modest and Islamic fashion. It also highlights the importance of clothing and bodily rituals (such as veiling, grooming and food choices) for the formation of community identities. Based on ethnographic research, Alimen analyses the relationship between the marketplace and religion, and shows how different communities interact with each other and state institutions. Of particular note are the varied expressions of Islamic masculinities and femininities at play. Appealing to a cross-disciplinary readership, the book will be relevant for scholars within Turkish Studies, Gender Studies, Islamic Studies, Fashion, Consumption Studies, Sociology of Religion and Middle Eastern Studies.
