Hejazi turban
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Example of white Hejazi Turban.
Type	Arab clothing
Place of origin	Hejaz , Arabian Peninsula

The Hejazi turban ( Arabic : ???????? ?????????? , ?im?mah IPA : ?i.maː.mah ), also spelled Hijazi turban , is a type of the turban headdress native to the region of Hejaz in modern-day western Saudi Arabia .

It is but one version of Arabian turbans that have been worn in the Arabian Peninsula from the pre-Islamic era to the present day. Islamic Arabs of the Arabian Peninsula region such as the Quraysh , Ansar , Qahtanites , Kindites , Nabataeans , Qedarites , Adnanites , Himyarites , Lakhmids , Ghassanids , and others used to wear the turban alongside the Keffiyeh which is also popular today in the rest of the Arabian Peninsula . ^[1]

By the Islamic era, the Hejazi turban became less common in the region and was replaced by the imama . Centuries after that, the imama was replaced by the Ghutrah / Shemagh .

Versions [ edit ]

The Arabian Hejazi turban is still worn today by some Ulama and Imams . ^{[ citation needed ]}

Worn in coloured or white varieties, the turban was a common inherited cultural headwear in the region of Hijaz . The Imamah was the traditional headwear for many in the region, from traders to the religious scholars, and the colours in which it was worn differed between individuals. ^[2]

In particular, the coloured turban is known as a Ghabanah and was a common head accessory for the inhabitants of Mecca , Madinah and Jeddah in particular. ^[3] Ghabanah today is the heritage uniform headwear for local traders and the general categories of the prestigious and middle-class. There are several types of Ghabanah , perhaps the most famous is the yellow (Halabi), that is made in Aleppo and is characterized by different inscriptions and is wrapped on a dome-like hollow taqiyah or a Turkish fez or kalpak cap. It is similar to turbans in neighbouring regions, like the masar , a traditional lightly-coloured turban in Oman that is also common in some regions like the south of Yemen and Hadhramaut . ^[4]

Additionally, sometimes keffiyeh is wrapped around the head in a style resembling a turban. ^[5]

Suppression [ edit ]

However, with the Hijaz in particular falling under Saudi control , there have been attempts to suppress local ethnic dress and enforce cultural homogeneity with wider Saudi society. ^[6] With the introduction of a law in 1964, there was a temporary ban on wearing the traditional turban - local urban Hijazis could no longer wear them and had to instead wear the Saudi national dress that included a Ghutrah or Shemagh instead. ^[7]

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References [ edit ]

• Al-Sulaiman, Farrah (2016). One of Us (MFA). Virginia Commonwealth University.
• Danforth, L.M., 2016. 6. Saving Jeddah, the Bride of the Red Sea. In Crossing the Kingdom (pp. 168-185). University of California Press.
• Kuonen, Laiza (2020). Vollig entschleiert?: Dschihad im Herzen, nicht aufm Kopf! (in German). BoD - Books on Demand. pp. 30?46. ISBN   9783752609219 .
• Marrielle, Risse (22 June 2019). "Community/Autonomy in Daily Life: People and Places" . Community and Autonomy in Southern Oman . pp. 97?148. doi : 10.1007/978-3-030-17004-2_3 . ISBN   9783030170042 . S2CID   201347347 . Retrieved 15 July 2021 .
• Khan, Uthman (May 2014). "Islamic Clothing, Then and Now" . researchgate.net . Retrieved 15 July 2021 .
• Yamani, Mai; Lindisfame-Tapper, Nancy; Ingham, Bruce (2014). "Changing the Habits of a Lifetime: The Adaptation of Hejazi Dress to the New Social Order". Languages of Dress in the Middle East . Oxford: Routledge. pp. 55?66. ISBN   9781136803178 .