Veiling in fashion
The author uses ethnographic investigation of everyday veiling practices among Muslim women in the city of Helsinki, Finland, as a lens through which to reflect on and advance understanding of matters concerning Muslim dress in international Muslim minorities contexts. She is connecting varied realms of practice, demonstrating how domains such as fashion, materiality, city spaces and gendered spatial behaviour, private life, religious beliefs, and cosmopolitan social conditions are bound up together. The empirical chapters are based on interviews with forty-six Muslim women based in Helsinki, comprising Finnish converts (frequently through marriage to Muslim migrants), Somalis, Shi’a Afghanis, Shi’a Iranians and Shi’a Iraqi women.
- Creator
- Almila, Anna-Mari