Re: tattooing ve hennaeing
Posted by Kenzi on October 27, 1999 at 23:46:06:
In Reply to: tattooing ve hennaeing posted by CAtherine Catwright JOnes on October 27, 1999 at 19:01:35:
: and Coptic and Armenian Christian traditons. Mohammed sez henna's
way
: cool, so no problem there.
:
Good translation from the arabic! ;-)
: evil (replaced by harquos)....I've found pretty good photos from up
to
: 1930 of facial patterns from Berber, Yemen and such..I wish there
were
: more! Lipstick and blusher just isn't as cool as some of those
: patterns! (There is a new thingie out... "Body Ink" that does a
dandy
: job of imitating harquus...that and waterproof eyeliner)
You can still see a lot of berber women in Morocco with tattoos on
their faces (probably elsewhere, but that's all I could see). I have
never seen any young women with tattoos though, and I think that is
more the march of modern culture than the taboos of Islam. Tattooing
among Berbers predates the arrival of Islam, and the practice
continued until a generation or two ago, although it is looked down
upon by city-dwelling Moroccans as country-bumpkin wierdness, not
really so much taboo.