Moors, A.

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Controversies about Islamic dress have become common-place in Europe since the later 1980s, with state regulations targeting both the Islamic headscarf and later the face-veil. Such present-day attempt to regulate Islamic head coverings resonate with how Muslim women’s dress has been the focus of state interventions in colonial times. In both cases they are considered as a sign, symbol or instrument of Muslim women’s gender oppression and are associated with undesirable forms of Islam.In this contribution, I intend to unpack the multiple ways in which references to ‘the colonial’ may work and analyze at which moments they are helpful and when they go awry. Tracing the genealogy of state regulations of Islamic head covers, takes us beyond colonial administrators’ discourse on women’s dress to the ways in which empires and emerging nation-states regulated men’s dress. The first part of this chapter then traces the shift in state governance from men’s dress to women’s dress, looking beyond direct colonial links and conditions in order to understand how such debates have emerged and were transformed in the context of colonial settings. In the second part I briefly address contemporary discourses in Europe that focus on women’s Islamic head covering. I end with an attempt to trace the genealogies of such contemporary concern

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UvA-DARE is a service provided by the library of the University of Amsterdam (https://dare.uva.nl)UvA-DARE (Digital Academic Repository)Colonial traces? Islamic dress, gender and the public presence of IslamMoors, A.Publication date2011Document VersionFinal published versionPublished inIMISCOE ResearchLink to publicationCitation for published version (APA):Moors, A. (2011). Colonial traces? Islamic dress, gender and the public presence of Islam.IMISCOE Research, 135-155. http://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=408876General rightsIt is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s)and/or copyright holder(s), other than for strictly personal, individual use, unless the work is under an opencontent license (like Creative Commons).Disclaimer/Complaints regulationsIf you believe that digital publication of certain material infringes any of your rights or (privacy) interests, pleaselet the Library know, stating your reasons. In case of a legitimate complaint, the Library will make the materialinaccessible and/or remove it from the website. Please Ask the Library: https://uba.uva.nl/en/contact, or a letterto: Library of the University of Amsterdam, Secretariat, Singel 425, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Youwill be contacted as soon as possible.Download date:09 Mar 2023researchimiscoeA m s t e r d a m  U n i v e r s i t y  P r e s sColonial and Post-Colonial Governance of IslamContinuities and Rupturesmarcel maussen, veit bader & annelies moors (eds.)IMISCOE Research

Colonial traces? Islamic dress, gender and the public presence of Islam

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Colonial traces? Islamic dress, gender and the public presence of Islam

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