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1 What your class asks
This lesson asks you to identify specialized clothing markets, among them religious or faith groups, to explain how and why each is a separate market, and to describe their fabrics and what those do. The museum holds what one community, Muslims, says about dress in general and about the pilgrim's garments; the innovations and modifications in making clothes, and the other markets, are for your class to add. 1
Curriculum expectations, with their official codes
- C1.1 identify specialized fashion/clothing markets […], and explain how and why each constitutes a separate market
- C1.2 describe fabrics used in, and innovations and modifications applied when creating, garments for specialized markets […], and explain their functions
2 Before you start
A thought to carry into the lesson.
3 The lesson
What makes a community a market?
Notice what a community needs to wear because of its rites, when it needs it, and which fabrics and colours it prefers. Then ask what turns that need into a separate market.
Go deeper
Look at two cloths. The record on the rida' gives its lexical sense as the garment that covers the upper body over the izar, which covers the lower body. 2 It reports that it is recommended for a pilgrim in ihram to wear a rida' and an izar that are white, new or washed. 2 In prayer, the majority prefer a shirt with a rida' over a single garment. 3 The record on clothing adds, from the same encyclopaedia, that a muhrim may not wear saffron- or safflower-dyed clothes, 4 5 and that it is recommended to dress well at festivals, in new and fine clothes, white being best. 6 Neither record says who wove, sold or priced these cloths.
Two views
The record on clothing sets out differences among the jurists over colour. On red for men, some Hanafis and Hanbalis disliked it when pure, while others allowed it if it was not dyed with saffron or safflower. 7 8 On saffron-dyed clothing, the Shafi'is forbade it to men and allowed it to women, while the Hanafis and Hanbalis disliked it for men. 4 5 The record places the views side by side and gives no ruling between them, and neither does this page.
How do we know?
Both records rest on one work, the Kuwaiti jurisprudence encyclopaedia, and they cite its pages. 9 2 Where a ruling rests on a report, the record names the report and its narrator, such as Aisha's report of two garments for Friday and the report of Samura ibn Jundab (may God be pleased with him) on white, 9 10 11 7 but it does not set the reports out in full. The records describe what the jurists say about dress. They do not say where cloth was bought or what it cost, so the market itself is for your class to add.
Think about it
The two records name garments, fabrics and colours, and show the schools differing over some of them. 7 Give your reason first: do the records show a separate market for cloth, or only a set of rulings, and what would a record of sales have to add?
Into the museum
- Albisa (clothing: rulings, colours and manners): the rulings, colours and materials as the jurists give them.
- Rida': the upper garment, in ihram and in prayer.
- Ihram: the state of consecration for hajj or umra, as the jurists define it.
4 Check yourself
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In your own words: what does Albisa (clothing: rulings, colours and manners) have to do with this lesson?
Compare with the card
What the jurists say about dress. The Kuwaiti Encyclopaedia of Fiqh records that the jurists hold clothing to be what covers the body and protects against heat and cold. They hold that covering the nakedness is obligatory, that dressing well at gatherings and festivals is recommended so long as it is not for pride, that materials are lawful unless a text forbids them, as silk is for men, and that white is recommended. How might rules like these shape what a group of buyers looks for?
In your own words: what does Rida' (the upper garment, worn over the izar): its wearing in ihram and in prayer, and turning it in the rain prayer have to do with this lesson?
Compare with the card
The rida' and izar of the pilgrim. In the lexicon the rida' is the garment that covers the upper body over the izar. For a pilgrim in ihram the record names a white izar and rida'; in prayer the majority of jurists prefer a shirt with a rida'. Who needs these garments, and when?
I can now
Notes
- 1. Ontario Ministry of Education, The Ontario Curriculum: Social Sciences and Humanities
- 2. al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3), p.8693
- 3. al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3), p.8694
- 4. al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3), p.3274
- 5. al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3), p.3275
- 6. al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3), p.3278
- 7. al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3), p.3271
- 8. al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3), p.3272
- 9. al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3), p.3267
- 10. al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3), p.3268
- 11. al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3), p.3270