Anṣār (الأنصار) jibbah

Item

Title

Anṣār (الأنصار) jibbah
jibbah

Creator

Creator Unrecorded

Subject

Sudan; clothing, men's
Clothing, General

Description

Anṣār (الأنصار) late-period smock-shaped garment, fawn in colour, with short sleeves. Two rectangles of blue material on back and front placed one over the other, probably indicating that the wearer was a follower of the Khalīfa ʿAbdullāhi’s Black Brigade (always described in Arabic as al-rayā al-zarqa, ‘blue banner’). [FHM 25/09/2019]

Publisher

Making African Connections

Format

Length 935mm; Width 1175mm

Identifier

5705.5.2
ES48

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The jibba: clothing for Sufi and soldier Text