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The Calligraphic State: Textual Domination and History in a Muslim Societyvolume 16
ISBN: 9780520205154 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In this innovative combination of anthropology, history, and postmodern theory, Brinkley Messick examines the changing relation of writing and authority in a Muslim society from the late nineteenth century to the present. The creation and interpretation of texts, from sacred scriptures to administrative and legal contracts, are among the fundamental ways that authority is established and maintained in a complex state. Yet few scholars have explored this process and the ways in which it changes, especially outside the Western world. Messick brings together intensive ethnography and textual...
In this innovative combination of anthropology, history, and postmodern theory, Brinkley Messick examines the changing relation of writing and authori...
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Shari'a Scripts: A Historical Anthropology
ISBN: 9780231178747 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 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. 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...
A case study in the textual architecture of the venerable legal and ethical tradition at the center of the Islamic experience, Sharīʿa Sc...
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693,65 |