Taqiyah (cap)

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A man wearing a crochet taqiyah and kurta in India

The Taqiyah (

Muslim men.[1] In the United States and the United Kingdom, it is also referred to as a "kufi",[2][3][4][5] although the Kufi typically has more of an African connotation. Aside from being an adornment, the taqiyah has deeply ingrained significance in Islamic culture, reflecting the wearer's faith, devotion, and sometimes regional identity. While the taqiyah is deeply rooted in Muslim traditions, its use varies based on cultural context rather than strict religious guidelines.[6]

In

Sunni
Muslims.

Etymology

Taqiyah is the

paijama. In the United States and Britain, many Muslim merchants sell the prayer cap under the name kufi. The Bukharan Jews adopted their distinctive style of kippah from the kufi.[citation needed
]

Muslim world

There are a wide variety of Muslim caps worn around the world. Each country or region usually has a unique head covering.

By country

Afghanistan

In Afghanistan men wear all sorts of araqchin, with different designs depending on the wearer's ethnicity, village and affiliations. They often wrap a turban around it, which is usually white, but black and other colors are also widely seen. They wear their araqchins with a peran tomban or perahan wa tonban, which means 'shirt and trousers' in the Persian of Afghanistan, which corresponds to a different, more archaic version of the shalwar kameez, being collarless, and of a wider cut. Traditionally the shirts sport distinctive embroidery, sometimes golden. But due to war, the traditional peran tomban is less and less used, and the shalwar kameez with a collar is becoming more and more used, specially by Eastern Afghans, and people coming from poor backgrounds.[citation needed]

Maldives

The prayer cap is called thakiha. The cap is known as the thofi and the fisherman's cap is referred to as koari.[citation needed]

Bangladesh

Four traditional types of topi in Bangladesh

The prayer cap in Bangladesh is known as a ṭopi, from the

Arabic term طاقية. Topis made in Comilla and Nilphamari are exported to the Middle East.[citation needed
]

The Indian topi worn by Muslim men in Bangladesh and South Asia should not be confused with the Dhaka topi, which is worn by men in Nepal.[citation needed]

Pakistan

The prayer cap is called a topi. Pakistani men wear a variety of other caps including the Sindhi topi, a mirrored cap with a front opening that allows the wearer to place the forehead on the ground during prayer. Other caps include the karakul (hat), fez (hat) and pakol.[citation needed]

Russia

Muslim men wear the

papakhi, see Islam in Russia. A Russian diplomat hat, which is a boat shaped cossack hat, is also worn. Nikita Khrushchev is said to have popularized it.[citation needed
]

Somalia

A Somali cleric wearing a taqiyah

Men in Somalia often wear the koofiyad cotton prayer cap, along with a sarong referred to as a macawiis. The jalabiya is also sometimes worn.[8]

Sudan

Further information:
Culture of Sudan

The prayer cap is worn under a white

thobe.[citation needed
]

Turkey

Before 1925, men used to wear the

tuxedo for weddings. Additionally, Dervishes have a unique costume.[citation needed
]

Turkmenistan

Turkmen tahýa for girls

In Turkmenistan taqiyahs are called tahýa in the Turkmen language and are a Turkmen national headdress with embroidered national patterns. The tahýa is an indispensable item of the national male garment, often worn on daily basis, along with another traditional headgear, the telpek, a sheepskin hat.[9]

In ancient times, Turkmens believed that the tahýa protects the owner from the evil eye and other troubles. Also, custom prohibited transferring an old tahýa to another person or throwing it away. In everyday life, the tahýa was intended to protect the head from the sun. Tahýa shapes can be oval, round, high and low. They are sewn from different fabrics such as velvet, silk, satin and chintz. Where girls' tahýas were softer and decorated with different colorful patterns, men's tahýas had restrained, simple patterns. Men put the tahýa on their shaved heads.[citation needed]

Among

madrasah graduates and akhuns wear a white or dark coloured cap with a usually white turban wrapped around it.[citation needed
]

United Arab Emirates

Men in the UAE often wear the gahfiyyah cotton prayer cap.

crown prince of Dubai, has, from 2012 onwards, requested that all visiting westerners and non-Muslims adhere to Islamic dress code during religious festivals. If full adherence is impossible, a simple gahfiyyah worn during prayers will suffice.[citation needed
]

By region

Central Asia

A Tajik guitar player wearing a rug cap
An Uyghur girl wearing a taqiyah
A 2010 Russian postage stamp depicting a Tatar woman wearing a taqiyah

The

Bahauddin Naqshband was from Uzbekistan and it is seen as a friendlier alternative to the austere solid black and white of some Muslims.[citation needed
]

Southeast Asia

The songkok, kopiah or peci has been traditionally worn by Muslim men in Southeast Asia, as shown here during prayer

In

Brunei Darussalam also wear the songkok. The Indonesians also produce a machine knitted skullcap that is popular with Muslims. Javanese people wear the sarong with their caps. In Sundanese, the skullcap is called a kupluk.[citation needed
]

Traditional Malaysian men's attire consists of a shirt, matching pants, and waist wrap that is called a

Dewan Undangan Negeri, is not necessarily a Muslim. This is because non-Muslims are required to wear one to comply with the dress code of the assembly. Taqiyah is known as kopiah in Malaysia.[citation needed
]

Balkans

tuxedo is worn.[citation needed
]

Africa

The

fez hats. The short sleeved robe is the gandora.[citation needed
]

In East Africa, the kofia is commonly worn in the Muslim communities in the coastal areas of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. Some Swahili speaking populations that are Muslim wear the kofia with a white robe called a kanzu in the Swahili language. In the United States, the kanzu is sold as an Omani thobe, Emirati thobe, or Yemeni dishdasha. A white kanzu and suit jacket or blazer is the formal wear of Swahili peoples.[citation needed]

In West Africa, there is the

tagelmust turban, which is worn with the grand boubou for all official functions, weddings, and Islamic celebrations. Another West African robe is called a Senegalese kaftan which is similar to an Arabic thobe, but with a different tailored cut, and the kufi or fez is often worn with it. As in Morocco, the gandora and djellaba is also worn by West African men, especially in domestic settings or for in-home prayers.[citation needed
]

The traditional women's attire is the wrapper, with hijab (worn as a turban or turban with additional scarf covering the sides of the head.[citation needed]

See also

Notes

Explanatory notes

  1. ALA-LC: "ṭopī", Bengali: টুপি, ṭupi, Somali
    : "Koofi")

Citations

  1. PMID 37868539
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  2. ISBN 978-1-60938-535-4
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  3. ^ Osbourne, Eileen (2005). RE - Buildings, Places, and Artefacts A Teacher Book + Student Book (SEN) (11-14). Folens Limited.
  4. ISBN 978-1-3984-5078-3
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  5. ISBN 978-1-4473-6361-3
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  6. PMID 37868539
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  7. ISBN 979-8-216-06994-2
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  8. ^ Michigan State University. Northeast African Studies Committee, Northeast African Studies, Volume 8, (African Studies Center, Michigan State University: 2001), p.66.
  9. ^ Wood, Andrew (2021). A Rhetoric of Ruins: Exploring Landscapes of Abandoned Modernity. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 158.

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