{"id":939,"date":"2007-12-14T15:06:10","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T13:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/2007\/12\/14\/ein-modischer-knubbel-auf-der-stirn_939"},"modified":"2007-12-14T15:06:10","modified_gmt":"2007-12-14T13:06:10","slug":"ein-modischer-knubbel-auf-der-stirn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/2007\/12\/14\/ein-modischer-knubbel-auf-der-stirn_939","title":{"rendered":"Ein modischer Knubbel auf der Stirn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Slackman nimmt sich in der Herald Tribune einer neuen religi\u00f6sen Mode in \u00c4gypten an: der <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2007\/12\/12\/news\/letter.php\">Zebibah<\/a>. Das hei\u00dft im Wortsinn &#8222;Traube&#8220; und meint im Alltag heute eine sichtbare Hornhaut auf der Stirn, einen dunklen Fleck, der von gro\u00dfer Fr\u00f6mmigkeit zeugt.<\/p>\n<p>\tRegelm\u00e4\u00dfige, inbr\u00fcnstige Beter, die ihre Stirn fest an den Boden pressen, weisen nach vielen Jahren diese charakteristische Hautverdickung auf. In \u00c4gypten geh\u00f6rt eine Zebibah mittlerweile zum guten Ton. Sie schafft Vertrauen: Ich bin ein frommer, bodenst\u00e4ndiger Mann, sagt die dunkle Stelle am Haaransatz. Die Zebibah ist insofern der Hidschab des Mannes, ein demontstratives Zeichen konservativer Fr\u00f6mmigkeit.<\/p>\n<p>\tManche aber haben Schwierigkeit, eine ansehnliche Zebibah aufzuweisen &#8211; sei es mangels Gebetseifer oder weil sie zu weiche Haut haben. Und in \u00c4gypten kursieren denn auch schon Ger\u00fcchte, mancher helfe mit Sandpapier nach,  wenn die 5 t\u00e4glichen Gebete es nicht schaffen.<\/p>\n<p>\tZitat:<\/p>\n<p>\t&#8222;Muslim men pray throughout the Arab world. Indeed, Egyptian women pray, but few of them end up with a prayer bump. So why do so many Egyptian men press so hard when they pray?&#8217;If we just take it for what it is, then it means that people are praying a lot,&#8216; said Gamal al-Ghitani, editor in chief of the newspaper Akhbar Al Yourm. &#8218;But there is a kind of statement in it. Sometimes as a personal statement to announce that he is a conservative Muslim and sometimes as a way of outbidding others by showing them that he is more religious or to say that they should be like him.&#8216;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#8230;.&#8217;The zebibah can help,&#8216; said Ahmed Mohsen, 35, a messenger for a law firm whose own mark was pinkish, bumpy and peeling. &#8218;It can lead to a kind of initial acceptance between people.&#8216;<\/p>\n<p>\tThere are no statistics on the zebibah&#8217;s prevalence. But today, perhaps more than any time in recent history, Egyptians are eager to demonstrate to each other just how religious they are.<\/p>\n<p>\tThere are many rumors about men who use irritants, like sandpaper, to darken the callous. They may be apocryphal, but the rumors themselves reveal how fashionable the mark has become.<\/p>\n<p>\tOf course, not everyone has a zebibah. There are still plenty of Egyptians who feel their faith is a personal matter.<\/p>\n<p>\tBut the pressure is growing, as religion becomes the focus of individual identity, and the most easily accessible source of pride and dignity for all social and economic classes.&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>\tDie F\u00fchrer der Muslimbruderschaft haben\u00a0 pr\u00e4chtige Zebibahs.  Sie sind Avantgardisten der popul\u00e4ren Islamisten-Mode in \u00c4gypten:<\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/files\/2007\/12\/akef1.jpg\" title=\"akef1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/files\/2007\/12\/akef1.jpg\" alt=\"akef1.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\t<em>Mohammed Mehdi Akef, Vorsitzender der Muslimbruderschaft<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/files\/2007\/12\/ezzat.jpg\" title=\"ezzat.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/files\/2007\/12\/ezzat.jpg\" alt=\"ezzat.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\t<em>Machmud Ezzat, Generalsekret\u00e4r der Muslimbr\u00fcder<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Slackman nimmt sich in der Herald Tribune einer neuen religi\u00f6sen Mode in \u00c4gypten an: der Zebibah. Das hei\u00dft im Wortsinn &#8222;Traube&#8220; und meint im Alltag heute eine sichtbare Hornhaut auf der Stirn, einen dunklen Fleck, der von gro\u00dfer Fr\u00f6mmigkeit zeugt. Regelm\u00e4\u00dfige, inbr\u00fcnstige Beter, die ihre Stirn fest an den Boden pressen, weisen nach vielen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,157,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curiosa","category-die-freunde-und-die-feinde-des-islams","category-religionen-und-rituale"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ein modischer Knubbel auf der Stirn - J\u00f6rg Lau<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/2007\/12\/14\/ein-modischer-knubbel-auf-der-stirn_939\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ein modischer Knubbel auf der Stirn - J\u00f6rg Lau\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Michael Slackman nimmt sich in der Herald Tribune einer neuen religi\u00f6sen Mode in \u00c4gypten an: der Zebibah. 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