Shari?a Scripts is a work of historical anthropology focused on Yemen in the early twentieth century. Brinkley Messick uses the writings of the Yemeni past to offer a comprehensive view of the shari?a as a localized and lived phenomenon in a groundbreaking examination of the interpretative range and insights offered by the anthropologist as reader.
Shari?a Scripts is a work of historical anthropology focused on Yemen in the early twentieth century. Brinkley Messick uses the writings of the Yemeni past to offer a comprehensive view of the shari?a as a localized and lived phenomenon in a groundbreaking examination of the interpretative range and insights offered by the anthropologist as reader.
Brinkley Messick is professor of anthropology and Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African studies as well as the director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia University. He is the author of The Calligraphic State: Textual Domination and History in a Muslim Society (1993) and a coeditor of Islamic Legal Interpretation: Muftis and Their Fatwas (1996).
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Map of Western Yemen Introduction Part I. Library 1. Books 2. Pre-text: Five Sciences 3. Commentaries: "Write It Down" 4. Opinions 5. "Practice with Writing" Part II. Archive 6. Intermission 7. Judgments 8. Minutes 9. Moral Stipulations 10. Contracts Postscript Notes Manuscripts and Archival Materials Bibliography Index
Map of Western Yemen Introduction Part I. Library 1. Books 2. Pre-text: Five Sciences 3. Commentaries: "Write It Down" 4. Opinions 5. "Practice with Writing" Part II. Archive 6. Intermission 7. Judgments 8. Minutes 9. Moral Stipulations 10. Contracts Postscript Notes Manuscripts and Archival Materials Bibliography Index
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