Egel
Black cord men's headwear in Islamic clothing / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An egel (Arabic: عِقَال, romanized: ʿiqāl), also spelled egal, agal, aqal and other variants, is an Arab men's clothing accessory. It is a black cord, worn doubled, used to keep a keffiye in place on the wearer's head.[1] It is traditionally made of goat hair.[2]
Type | Arab clothing |
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Material | Goat hair |
Place of origin | Arabian Peninsula |
It is traditionally worn by Arabs from the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, Jordan, and parts of Palestine, Egypt and Syria and Ahwazi Arabs. The use of the egel and ghutra is dated through antiquities including bas-reliefs and statues going back to ancient times.
The egel is traced in Semitic and Middle Eastern civilizations and even in ancient Arabian kingdoms. In his book Iran in the Ancient East, the archaeologist and Iranologist Ernst Herzfeld, in referring to the Susa bas-reliefs, points to the ancient egel as unique headwear of Elamites that distinguished them from other nations.[3][better source needed]