Brinkley Messick

Shari'a Scripts

A Historical Anthropology

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 536
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 152mm x 227mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 782g
• ISBN-13: 9780231178754
• ISBN-10: 0231178751
• Artikelnr.: 62952948

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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