Hair

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

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  Hadas Hirsch•Hawwa•2025

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• Translated woman

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• Mind in Matter

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• “… And He Was Born Circumcised …”

  M J Kister, Menahem Kister•Oriens•1994

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• Dyeing the Hair and Beard in Early Islam a Hadīth-Analytical Study

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• On the Symbolism of Hair in Islamic Societies

  Open Access•Ingrid Pfluger-Schindlbeck•Anthropology of the Middle East•2006

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• Symbolic Meanings of Hair in the Middle Ages

  Open Access•Robert Bartlett•Transactions of the Royal…•1994

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• Arthur J. Arberry

  Rudi Paret•Die Welt des Islams•1957

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• The 'Akika Sacrifice

  Open Access•Samuel M Zwemer•The Muslim World•1916

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• The Kaʿba, Gender, and the Rites of Pilgrimage

  Open Access•William C Young•International Journal Middle East…•1993

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• Shame and Glory

  Anthony Synnott•British Journal of Sociology•1987

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• The Rites of Passage

  Arnold Van Gennep•The Rites of Passage•2013

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• Untangling the Meanings of Hair in Turkish Society

  Carol Delaney•Anthropological Quarterly•1994

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• The Meaning of Paternity and the Virgin Birth Debate

  Carol Delaney•Man•1986

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• Hair, Sex and Dirt

  P Hershman•Man•1974

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• The Hajj

  Open Access•Carol Delaney•American Ethnologist•1990

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