Hırka

Yellow wool dervish coat of the kind that would eventually come to be called a hırka. First half of the 17th century.

“Hırka” was one of several names for a short, loose jacket worn by dervishes. The word appears to be post-period.

Due to the vast, roiling confusion over the word for the hip-length underjacket, some modern scholars appropriated “hırka” to describe it. The correct 16th-century term is zıbın.

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