Turban
Esther Voswinckel Filiz
Related Terms:
- Khil‘a (honorific robe)
- Loom (frame for weaving)
- Mi’raj (celestial ascension – Jerusalem to the Heavens)
- Qubba (dome)
- Silk (natural fiber made from silkworm cocoons)
- Suzani (type of embroidery)
- Tiraz (textile with inscription)
- Velvet (type of luxury compound weave)
Related Khamseen Video:
Christiane Gruber, “A Safavid Painting of the Prophet Muhammad’s Mi‘raj,” Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online, published 28 August 2020.
References:
Anetshofer, Helga and Hakan T. Karateke eds. Traktat über die Derwischmützen (Risale-i Taciyye) des Müstaqīm-zāde Süleyman Saʿdeddīn (1202/1787). Leiden: Brill, 2001.
Atasoy, Nurhan. Derviș Çeyizi. Türkiye’de Tarikat Giyim-Kuşam Tarihi. Istanbul: T.C. Kültür Bakanlığı, 2000.
Ceyhan, Semih. “Taç/2. Bolüm: Tasavvuf.” TDV İslam Ansiklopedisi, vol. 39, 363–365.
Frembgen, Jürgen W. Kleidung und Ausrüstung islamischer Gottsucher: Ein Beitrag zur materiellen Kultur des Derwischwesens. Wiesbaden: Harassowitz, 1999.
Gündüzöz, Güldane. Tasavvufta Tac Sembolizmi. Istanbul: Büyüyenay, 2017.
Menzel, Theodor. “Beiträge zur Kenntnis des Derwisch-tāĝ.” In Festschrift Georg Jacob zum siebzigsten Geburtstag, 26. Mai 1932, ed. Theodor Menzel, 174–99.Leipzig: Harrassowitz, 1932.
Voswinckel Filiz, Esther. “Der Turban von Aziz Mahmud Hüdayi.”In Aziz Mahmud Hüdayi in Istanbul – Biographie eines Ortes, 219–240. Baden-Baden: Ergon, 2022.
Citation:
Esther Voswinckel Filiz, “Turban,” Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online, published 11 May 2023.
Esther Voswinckel Filiz (Ph.D., Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 2020) is a researcher at the Orient-Institut in Istanbul. She studied Cultural Anthropology and Religious Studies in Bologna and Tübingen, with a focus on the anthropology of religion in the Mediterranean. She conducted field research in Üsküdar for several years for her doctoral thesis entitled “Aziz Mahmud Hüdayi in Istanbul: Biography of a Place,” published as a German-language book in 2022. Her research focuses on the material culture of Sufism in Istanbul, on the historical and contemporary aesthetics of saints’ tombs (türbe), and on the portable and textile paraphernalia therein. Her forthcoming publications include, among others, “Headgear” (with Semih Ceyhan) in Brill’s Handbook of Sufi Material Culture, and “Sufi Turbans in Istanbul: The Textile and Textual Production of the Tâc-ı Șerîf,” in The Politics of Dress and Identity in Eastern Mediterranean Societies, Past and Present.