In the Music Hall era, people would dress up as Mufti, in traditional garb, which because of the Ottoman empire was a fez with a tassle and a dressing gown. You'll then be asked to choose a password so you For example, in 1930 Auckland Grammar School old boys lined up for a sports day sprint in mufti. And the word was on people’s minds during wartime. One ref used to cooperate, but they succeeded in winning consent from the other, a mufti, who issued a fatwa in their favor.

Out of mufti’s connection to cadets’ uniforms grew a wider meaning that included all school non-uniform wearing. Let’s simply call them what they are: non-uniform days. Mufti day See also: Casual Friday A mufti day (also known as casual clothes day, casual Friday, colour day, own clothes day, home clothes day, plain clothes day, non-uniform day, mufting day, free dress day, civvies day, dress down day, uniform-free day) is a day where students and staff go to school in casual clothing instead of school uniform. So what’s the connection between Muslim authority figures and out of uniform school children? It took root in educational institutions that were often quick to employ militaristic language and activities. The Libyan Mufti, Sheikh Al-Siddiq Al-Gharyani, has called for paying more attention to military frontlines, especially Sirte, warning that Khalifa Haftar is building up a military offensive that he could commence any moment, disregardful of the ceasefire agreement.

It referred to a variety of situations and outfits when soldiers dressed in informal clothes. Learn more. It was postcolonial scholar Edward Said’s orientalism in action; part of the West’s patronising representations of the East.

[3] for support, It looks like this account has been This was then picked up as not being in uniform, which is what it means now in English. But little do most mufti day organisers and participants know that their prized day of casual clothing is Kiwiana that is menacingly tangled up in the colonial past. It was an invented tradition developed in a past time steeped in Anglo-Celtic dominance and patriotic Britishness. Independent journalism takes time, money and hard work to produce. If you can help, donate to The Spinoff Members. "Haftar has been committing crimes and violations for six years and no party of the international community has ever moved to take action against him." Once upon a colonial time during the Raj in India, off-duty British military leaders adopted a subjugated culture’s ceremonial clothing as their informal attire. It’s time to decolonise mufti days.

deleted in the past. I feel really under pressure to look Next mufti spread to the schools. It’s only the occasional mufti day that brings the chance to ditch the conformity. I hate mufti day at my school (which is all girls) because its like a huge competition and everyone judges everyone else. The Spinoff Daily gets you all the day's best reading in one handy package, fresh to your inbox Monday-Friday at 5pm. By the end of the 20th century, along with other Kiwiana such as Belgian biscuits and Swanndris, mufti was a relic of the colonial past.

The Mufti remarked. The spirit of the Raj’s adopting “oriental” clothing lives on in adapted form.

One culture’s power dressing was another’s play clothes. In 1906 it was recorded in Whanganui that three cadet corps from the District High School would attend a funeral in mufti. Its Mufti Day, fucking Mufti Mufti has had its day. ‘I wrote The Pōrangi Boy for kids like me’: Shilo Kino on her debut novel, Listening to the silence: Those who don’t, can’t or won’t vote this election, Netflix adds warning to doco after complaint to NZ censor over Christchurch terrorist footage.


Now, ever since the year dot it has been called a Mufti Day.
The Spinoff is subject to NZ Press Council procedures. In the post-World War II years mufti persisted beyond its military stronghold. Yet mufti managed to soldier on devoid of its origin narrative. It was the precursor to fancy dressing up for mufti day fundraisers, a theme that continues to the present day. Your source for comprehensive and feature coverage of Libya daily news and events. If you Mufti interpret Islamic law and then issue fatwa (legal opinion). The appearance of mufti in schools also remained closely connected to the military.