T. E. Lawrence Quotes


A thick headcloth forms a good protection against the sun, and if you wear a hat your best Arab friends will be ashamed of you in public.


Citations

Lawrence, T. E. "Twenty-Seven Articles." The Arab Bulletin, 20 Aug. 1917.

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At the time, headwear identified the wearer’s caste and class. Fezes, Turbans, etc. were eliminated in favor of hats. This was Ataurk’s solution to two problems: He wanted to have Turkey modernize and develop along the lines of Western democracy and the traditional Islamic headgear being replaced by Western hats were daily symbols of the national modernization. The second advantage was that Turks could no longer identify caste and class by the traditional headgear and the society became much more egalitarian which it has been ever since.


T. E. Lawrence
T. E. Lawrence
  • Born: August 16, 1888
  • Died: May 19, 1935
  • Nationality: British
  • Profession: Soldier

Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence CB DSO was a British archaeologist, army officer, diplomat, and writer who became renowned for his role in the Arab Revolt (1916–1918) and the Sinai and Palestine Campaign (1915–1918) against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. The breadth and variety of his activities and associations, and his ability to describe them vividly in writing, earned him international fame as Lawrence of Arabia, a title used for the 1962 film based on his wartime activities.