Sabiha Çimen’s first photo book, “Hafiz,” documents the young Muslim students in Turkey who attend hafiz schools, where they learn all 604 pages of the Quran. For many of the girls, the two or three years spent there will be their only formal education.
” , opens with a portrait of a nine-year-old named Hatice trying to recite the Quran by heart. She wears a lilac hijab, printed with thin swirls that resemble treble clefs, and sits across from a study partner, similarly scarved, in an Istanbul schoolroom, her elbow propped on a polka-dotted tablecloth matching the wallpaper behind her.
For many of Çimen’s subjects, the hijab comes to resemble any ordinary school uniform, no more limiting than a collared shirt or a plaid skirt. For others, though, the garment suggests a brusque induction into the realities of adulthood. Throughout “Hafiz,” Çimen dramatizes the girls’ journeys from innocence to experience with the fanciful use of gatefold pages.
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