Sidara

A sidara is a cap that can be folded flat when not being worn. Although it has been associated with various military forces since the middle of the 19th century, the sidara was associated with both military and civilians in Iraq.

Ali Al, Wardi, an Iraqi Social Scientist specialized in the field of Social history, wearing the sidara

This began On August 23, 1921, when Faisal I assumed the throne of Mandatory Iraq.

Faisal dreamed of building a modern state in Iraq, and introducing a number of traditions and modern political and social systems to the country, a country that had just emerged from the Ottoman rule, which lasted nearly four centuries. Among these changes, the king wanted to find a national dress for the head and to distinguish the people of Iraq from neighbouring, like the Ottomans who wear Fez and Arabs of the Arabian Peninsula, who wear thawb.[1] It was distributed for the first time to ministers by Rustam Haidar, one of the king's advisors at the time, The sidara was first worn by King Faisal I to encourage people to wear it, and thus it is also known as a faysaliyyah. The sidara was mainly used in big cities, like Baghdad and Mosul.[2][3][1]

Sidara today

Since the fall of the monarchy in Iraq, the popularity of the sidara has gradually declined. The last major figure to wear it was President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr. Since the eighties of the twentieth century, it has become uncommon to see a person wearing the sidara in Iraq, except in some particular places in both Baghdad and Mosul, and on occasions that bear a traditional character. The sidara has disappeared from the Iraqi military uniform in the 21st century.[1]

References
  1. "السدارة رمز الهوية العراقية - Mandaean Associations Union - اتحاد الجمعيات المندائية". www.mandaeanunion.org (in Arabic). Retrieved 2021-12-20.
  2. "ندوة نقاشية حول تاريخ السدارة البغدادية – شبكة اخبار العراق". Retrieved 2021-12-20.
  3. "السدارة الفيصلية.. والوطنية العراقية". www.almadasupplements.com. Retrieved 2021-12-20.
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