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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 27 b&w photographs |
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Table of Contents:
- 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