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    Fashion, performance and the politics of belonging among Muslim women in Cape Town
    (University of the Western Cape, 2013) Hendricks, Hibah; Becker, Heike
    This thesis explores how the hijab fashion market has emerged in Cape Town and how Capetonian Muslim women are appropriating hijab fashion as a means of redefining themselves as Muslim South Africans instead of ?Cape Malays?, the ethnic label given to Muslims in the Western Cape during the apartheid era. I argue that through self stylisation Cape Malay women are performatively rejecting the ethnicisation of Islam during apartheid. I show that ?Cape Malay? women are using hijab fashion to perform their ?Muslimness? in order to claim a positive and legitimate spot in the ?rainbow nation? as Muslims as a religious-cultural category, and not as ?Malays?, an ethnic category, while simultaneously claiming their belonging to the global umma (Muslim community)