Much respect and thanks need to be directed at the Gab user Mohamscamel for originally putting a link up to an article in HaRimon magazine about religious headgear, especially Jewish religious headwear. This article shows how Jewish religious headwear has changed over the centuries and how these changes have been influenced by everything from the Islamic invasion of what is now Israel through to rules brought in by anti Semitic Christian monarchs in Europe that required Jews to wear particular styles of hats in order to both make them identifiable and to subject them to humiliation.

One of the things that fascinated me about this article is that it explains how one particular type of headgear, the Sudra, is an almost direct link to the type of Jewish culture that existed in the Middle East in the period between the decline of the Roman Empire and the rise of Islam. The Sudra may have changed in style due to both fashion and external influences such as Islamic oppression of Jews, but it has still survived. It has, like the Jewish people themselves, survived pogroms and jihad, survived domination by outside forces ranging from the early Islamic Caliphate, through the Turkish Ottoman administration of the Levant and the British Empire and is still present in the land of its creation, the land of Israel.

This is a long form and very detailed article but if you are interested in history and in particular the interaction between religion and history then you might find this article very informative indeed. You can find it by clicking on the link below.

https://www.harimon.co.uk/article/2021/08/03/the-sudra/#content-start