Hair

Practices and Symbolism in Traditional Muslim Societies

Datos Bibliográficos

ID13062016
AutoresHadas Hirsch (0000-0001-5435-0258, Oranim Academic College of Education, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Volumen5
Número1
Páginas33-55
Fecha de publicación2017-04-17
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSociology of Islam (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2213-140X • E-ISSN: 2213-1418
EditorialBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/22131418-00501001
OpenAlexW2607781300
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas17

This study examines Muslim legal discussion of head and body hair by uncovering their symbolic meanings as found in written descriptions, as these reflect both reality and expected norms. The use of symbols and symbolizing processes, together with a wider conception of the way Muslims perceive themselves, their appearance and the human interactions they have in daily life and during ceremonies, confirms the multiplicity of meanings which exist in the legal discussion of head and body hair. Thus, these societies entertained several levels of meaning for hair, some of them contradictory and complementary at the same time

Aesthetics · Biology · Epistemology · Head (geology · Meaning (existential · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · The Symbolic · Gender Studies · Hispanic-African Historical Relations · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Philosophy · Psychology