@article{TEXTUAL,
      recid = {14429},
      author = {Chipman, Leigh},
      title = {Hair Removal and Hair Dyeing: Cosmetics in the Medieval  Middle East, between Pharmacy and Hadith},
      publisher = {Middle East Documentation Center at the University of  Chicago},
      journal = {Mamlūk Studies Review},
      address = {2024},
      number = {TEXTUAL},
      abstract = {In the Islamic world, both men and women are required to  deal with their hair in specific ways, such as covering the  head or wearing a beard. This paper will not be dealing  with these but with two topics that appear not only in  religious literature but also in pharmacological writings:  the removal of body hair and the dyeing of the hair of  one’s head (including the beard) using hadith collections  and pharmacopoeia. Previous studies of hair and hair care  in Islamic societies have largely focused on legal texts;  the purpose of this paper is to add the recipes for hair  dyes and depilatory pastes to the conversation, asking: how  did people actually color or remove hair? The  pharmacological material at my disposal is limited; given  the later texts’ extensive quotation of earlier ones, I  will be moving back and forth between Abbasid Baghdad and  Mamluk Cairo in my citation of hadith and recipes alike.  The topic of dyeing the hair of the head and beards seems  to have not yet received an actual academic discussion, at  least not a historicizing one.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/14429},
}