Shari'a Scripts : : A Historical Anthropology / / Brinkley Messick.
A case study in the textual architecture of the venerable legal and ethical tradition at the center of the Islamic experience, Sharīʿa Scripts is a work of historical anthropology focused on Yemen in the early twentieth century. There-while colonial regimes, late Ottoman reformers, and early nationa...
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Messick, Brinkley, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Shari'a Scripts : A Historical Anthropology / Brinkley Messick. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2018] ©2018 1 online resource : 27 b&w photographs text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Map of Upper and Lower Yemen -- Introduction -- PART I. LIBRARY -- one Books -- two Pre-text: Five Sciences -- three Commentaries: "Write It Down" -- four Opinions -- five "Practice with Writing" -- PART II. ARCHIVE -- six Intermission -- seven Judgments -- eight Minutes -- nine Moral Stipulations -- ten Contracts -- Postscript -- Notes -- Manuscripts and Archival Materials -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star A case study in the textual architecture of the venerable legal and ethical tradition at the center of the Islamic experience, Sharīʿa Scripts is a work of historical anthropology focused on Yemen in the early twentieth century. There-while colonial regimes, late Ottoman reformers, and early nationalists wrought decisive changes to the legal status of the sharīʿa, significantly narrowing its sphere of relevance-the Zaydī school of jurisprudence, rooted in highland Yemen for a millennium, still held sway.Brinkley Messick uses the richly varied writings of the Yemeni past to offer a uniquely comprehensive view of the sharīʿa as a localized and lived phenomenon. Sharīʿa Scripts reads a wide spectrum of sources in search of a new historical-anthropological perspective on Islamic textual relations. Messick analyzes the sharīʿa as a local system of texts, distinguishing between theoretical or doctrinal juridical texts (or the "library") and those produced by the sharīʿa courts and notarial writers (termed the "archive"). Attending to textual form, he closely examines representative books of madrasa instruction; formal opinion-giving by muftis and imams; the structure of court judgments; and the drafting of contracts. Messick's intensive readings of texts are supplemented by retrospective ethnography and oral history based on extensive field research. Further, the book ventures a major methodological contribution by confronting anthropology's longstanding reliance upon the observational and the colloquial. Presenting a new understanding of Islamic legal history, Sharīʿa Scripts is a groundbreaking examination of the interpretative range and historical insights offered by the anthropologist as reader. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mrz 2022) Islamic law Yemen (Republic) History 20th century. Justice, Administration of Yemen (Republic) History 20th century. Law reform Yemen (Republic) History 20th century. Legal documents (Islamic law) Yemen (Republic) History 20th century. Legal documents Yemen (Republic) History 20th century. Zaydīyah Yemen (Republic) History 20th century. HISTORY / Middle East / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 9783110606607 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 English 9783110604252 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 9783110603255 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2018 English 9783110604030 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2018 9783110603149 ZDB-23-DEG print 9780231178747 https://doi.org/10.7312/mess17874 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231541909 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231541909/original |
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