 | Shari''a Scripts: A Historical Anthropology Subjects: Justice Administration of -- Yemen (Republic) -- History -- 20th century; Law reform -- Yemen (Republic) -- History -- 20th century; Islamic law -- Yemen (Republic) -- History -- 20th century; Zaydīyah -- Yemen (Republic) -- History -- 20th century; Lega; Sharīʿa 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 sharīʿa as a localized and lived phenomenon in a groundbreaking examination of the interpretative range and insights offered by the anthropologist as reader. Messick Brinkley : Brinkley Messick (PhD, Anthropology, Princeton) is Professor of Anthropology and of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies and Director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia University. He is the author of The Calligraphic State (California, 1993), which won the Albert Hourani Award from the Middle East Studies Association, and Sharīʿa Scripts: An Historical Anthropology (Columbia, forthcoming) and the coeditor of Islamic Legal Interpretation (Harvard, 1996). I chose him as a reader for his interests in the theory and practice of Islamic law.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). |
