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Shari'a Scripts : A Historical Anthropology / Brinkley Messick.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource : 27 b&w photographsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231178747
  • 9780231541909
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 349.533 23
LOC classification:
  • KMX1046.8 .M47 2018
  • KMX1046.8 .M47 2018
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

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