The total beauty of the Islamic rich culture which was admired by all standards has been blackmailed by Western culture. Today, modernity and freedom of wear have killed the dress code of the Islamic culture. It is time to revisit the African descent wear.
The perspective of cultural diversity has become increasingly prevalent in European discussions on Islam in recent years. For European Muslims fighting for acceptance and acknowledgement in this discursive environment, culture is an essential field of engagement. This essay looks at two different cultural discourses based on two different ethnographic research studies among European Muslims.
One uses the cliché of Islam against culture to separate Islam from some patriarchal behaviours that are thought to occur in Muslim communities. To improve the status of artistic practices within Muslim communities, the other discourse promotes the inherent and mutually beneficial relationship between Islam and culture. I investigate the multiagent meanings in my interlocutors’ applications of the idea of culture by following the corresponding genealogies of these meanings to make sense of these apparent conflicts.
This entails an exploration of the conceptual histories of culture, as developed successively by Islamic reformers and their more recent heirs, Romanticists, Enlightenment thinkers, and early anthropologists. My research into these conceptual histories reveals broader worries about personal autonomy and freedom on the side of cultural theorists, concerns that have further allowed for a variety of modernity- and backwardness-related claims. Although European Muslims imaginatively incorporate many interpretations of the cultural concept into their world-building endeavours, I contend that the ontological presuppositions that support the concept of culture persist and make attempts to prove Muslim inclusion in Europe through cultural hazards.