Finally it seems the academic study of hijab has come of age. The contributorsto this collection neither treat it as an object of curiosity or derision, nor wonderat Muslimahs’ “false consciousness”; rather, they treat this “piece of cloth” andthe accompanying dress code as a “normal” object of academic enquiry. Forexample, they expand the investigation to...Read More

This volume of scholarship surrounding Islamic fashion presents a counternarrativeto a dominant story: that Muslim women in the West are subjugatedby the oppressive and patriarchal yoke of Islam. Islamic Fashion and Anti-Fashion: New Perspectives from Europe and North America offers a freshnew look at veiling, its intersection with religious piety, family, community,religious authority, fashion, and...Read More