This volume of scholarship surrounding Islamic fashion presents a counternarrative
to a dominant story: that Muslim women in the West are subjugated
by the oppressive and patriarchal yoke of Islam. Islamic Fashion and Anti-
Fashion: New Perspectives from Europe and North America offers a fresh
new look at veiling, its intersection with religious piety, family, community,
religious authority, fashion, and commoditization through sixteen distinct studies ranging from clothing items like the burqini and the pardosu to larger issues
surrounding identity and politics, such as North American Islamophobia and
its impact on Canadian Muslims.
American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences