Faegheh Shirazi

Islamicate Textiles (eBook, ePUB)

Fashion, Fabric, and Ritual

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Textiles and clothing are interwoven with Islamic culture. In Islamicate Textiles, readers are taken on a journey from Central Asia to Tanzania to uncover the central roles that textiles play within Muslim-majority communities.

This thematically arranged book sheds light on the traditions, rituals and religious practices of these regions, and the ways in which each one incorporates materials and clothing. Drawing on examples including Iranian lion carpets and Arabic keffiyeh, Faegheh Shirazi frames these textiles and totemic items as important cultural signifiers that, together, form a dynamic and fascinating material culture. Like a developing language, this culture expands, bends and develops to suit the needs of new generations and groups across the world.

The political significance of Islamicate textiles is also explored: Faegheh Shirazi's writing reveals the fraught relationship between the East - with its sought-after materials and much-valued textiles - and the European countries that purchased and repurposed these goods, and lays bare the historical and contemporary connections between textiles, colonialism, immigration and economics. Dr Shirazi also discusses gender and how textiles and clothing are intimately linked with sexuality and gender identity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350291256
• Artikelnr.: 67575594

Autorenporträt

Faegheh Shirazi is a Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the The University of Texas at Austin, USA. Her research interests include textiles, dress, gender identity discourse, and material culture in the Middle East; the meanings of veiling; rituals and rites of passage as they relate to material culture.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Textiles and Symbols: A Mélange of Cultural Signifiers
Kanga: Cloth with a Message Lion of Persia: pre-Islamic to Contemporary
Iran Felt and Fabrics under Domination: Central Asia Ram's Horn: Central
Asia and Iran 2. Talismanic Textiles: Gender, Status, and the Supernatural
Protecting Fiber and Livelihood: the Ladakh Blessed Looms, Blessed Fibers
Sacred Colors: Red, White, and Light Blue Beyond the Loom Amulets:
Protection Against the Unseen Inscribed Talismanic Shirts Gendered Looms
3. The Politicization of Textiles: Colonialism to the Present India and
Cotton: Rejecting Colonial Rule United We Stand: India's Muslim Weavers
West African Wax Cloth Calico: the Forbidden Indian Cotton Indian Cloth in
Southeast Asia Keffiyeh: from Functional to Symbolic The Russian Colonial
Effect on Central Asian Textiles Russian Political Symbolism on Woven
Carpets 4. Textiles and Crisis: Displacement & Occupation Rohingya of Burma
Syria Iraq Afghanistan Siddis, Afro Indians Pakistan/India separation:
Becoming two nations Indonesia Palestine 5. Textiles and Death Rituals in
Islamicate Societies Burial Garment for Muslims: the Kafan Piecing Together
the Past: Tiraz and Halaqa Tomb Covers for the Prophet Muhammed: Kiswa Tomb
Covers: Signifiers of Status Indian and South Asian Tomb Covers Haji Ali
Dargah Ajmer Sharif Dargah Egyptian Funeral Tents: The Art of Khayamiya
Conclusion