Publisher's Synopsis
This Special Double Issue of Fashion Theory on Muslim Fashions has been awarded an Honorable Mention at the CELJ Awards in 2007. This issue grows out of an awareness of the dearth of literature about Muslim fashion practices and a more general lack of literature that engages with the relationship between religion and fashion. It discusses how, for many Muslim women, religion, fashion, and politics are not incompatible but intimately related and reworked through dress. Contents Annelies Moors and Emma Tarlo: 'Introduction' Emma Tarlo: 'Islamic Cosmopolitanism: The Sartorial Biographies of Three Muslim Women in London' Amina Yaqin: 'Islamic Barbie: The Politics of Gender and Performance' Özlem Sandikci and Güliz Ger: 'Constructing and Representing the Islamic Consumer in Turkey' Carla Jones: 'Fashion and Faith in Urban Indonesia' Caroline Osella and Filippo Osella: 'Muslim Style in South India' Dorothea E. Schulz: 'Competing Sartorial Assertions of Femininity and Muslim Identity in Mali' Mona Abaza: 'Shifting Landscapes of Fashion in Contemporary Egypt' Alexandru Balasescu: 'Haute Couture in Tehran: Two Faces of an Emerging Fashion Scene' Annelies Moors: 'Fashionable Muslims: Notions of Self, Religion, and Society in San'a' Emma Tarlo: 'Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis: A Sartorial Review
