Sumer. Ancient Near East. Islam. Veiling. Head covering. Headscarf debate. Women. Qur’an. Headscarf and Veiling. Glimpses from Sumer to Islam Del Fabbro, Roswitha (Editor) Fales, Frederick Mario (Editor) Galter, Hannes D. (Editor) http://phaidra.cab.unipd.it/o:432584 2021 eng application/pdf (8946897 bytes) This volume – which stems from an international conference held at the University of Graz on March 2, 2020, just before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic – represents a small, but specifically targeted contribution to a field of research and discussion that has increasingly come to the fore in the last two decades, regarding the practice of covering or veiling womens’ heads or faces over different times and places. “Dress is never value free”, as anthropologists state, and veiling functions as an assertion/communication of relationship dynamics in terms of gender, social and cultural identity, phases and stages of life (puberty, marriage, death) or of religious beliefs – even reaching to a typical dichotomy of our times, the female condition between tradition and modernity. Series: Antichistica 30. Sub-series: Studi orientali 12. Edizioni Ca' Foscari - Digital Publishing PHAIDRA University of Padua hdl:11168/11.459036 https://phaidra.cab.unipd.it/o:459036 Headscarf and Veiling. Venezia, Edizioni Ca' Foscari - Digital Publishing, 2021-08-30. https://polovea.sebina.it/SebinaOpac/resource/headscarf-and-veiling-glimpses-from-sumer-to-islam/VEA3188056 PDFDocument http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode