Personal Grooming and Outward Appearance in Early Muslim Societies

Autor:	Hadas Hirsch
Rok vydání:	2011
Předmět:	Legal norm Personal grooming History Adornment business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Religious studies Clothing Aesthetics Beauty Social relationship Sociology business Social psychology media_common
Zdroj:	Al-Masāq. 23:99-116
ISSN:	1473-348X 0950-3110
Popis:	Past Muslim Societies have placed much importance on the outward appearance and personal grooming of both men and women based on the assumption that both physical attributes and clothing and adornment are benevolence God showers upon the believers. This is reflected in Medieval Muslim legal texts which provide much information regarding clothing, adornment and grooming. Along with shaping legal norms, those sources also contain discussion and response to a changing reality. This is a demonstration of the desirable and the existing alike and a reflection of a relationship of dependency and influence between reality and the written legal texts. The discussion of these sources shows that past Muslim societies, like many others, used the importance of the outward appearance as a means to determining social relationship in general and hierarchical gender-based relations specifically. For themselves men have decided that fostering their outward appearance and keeping the rules of hygiene are fulfilment of God's...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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