Hijab of modern Muslims: tradition or fashion?

Tradition versus fashion in consumer choice

Evidence is growing that in many markets consumers select not simply on the basis of the perceived attributes of products, but their preferences are modified by the behaviour of others. Economists have paid relatively little attention to such markets. The classic Bass diffusion model incorporates the imitation of others as a part of the behavioural rules used by consumers in making choice. We e...

Hygiene in the early modern medical tradition

"reading" the body as well as the texts. Helen King examines how the healer could read the body and avoid being deceived by it, and what made reading a female body different. In Chapter 3, it is the case histories in the Hippocratic Epidemics that are subjected to scrutiny, with particular focus on one specific case of a girl who died after a nosebleed. In Chapters 4 and 5, the author turns to ...

A veil (hijab) as a public symbol of a Muslim woman modern identity.

In this article the author explains the social role of Muslim woman in a postmodern society through a public symbol of her identity--the veil. The article's thesis is that the Muslim women's manifestation of their Islamic denomination through veiling and wearing appropriate clothes (in the case of men through growing beards and wearing clothes considered appropriate for them) signifies an expre...

General Economic Principles of Modern Islamic Civilization Based on the Prophetic Tradition

The Prophet's performance in the economic interactions of the prophetic government includes principles and axes that, in addition to explaining the Islamic religion's view of the worldly affairs, also represent the desirable structure of the economic system in modern Islamic civilization. He, as the position of the Islamic government ruler, has managed the economic affairs of the government and...

Austro-German Liberalism and the Modern Liberal Tradition