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Shari'a Scripts - A Historical Anthropology (Hardcover)
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Shari'a Scripts - A Historical Anthropology (Hardcover)
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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, Shari'a
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 shari'a, significantly narrowing its sphere of
relevance, the Zaydi 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 shari'a as a localized and lived
phenomenon. Shari'a Scripts reads a wide spectrum of sources in
search of a new historical-anthropological perspective on Islamic
textual relations. Messick analyzes the shari'a as a local system
of texts, distinguishing between theoretical or doctrinal juridical
texts (or the "library") and those produced by the shari'a 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. Shari'a Scripts also ventures a major methodological
contribution by confronting anthropology's longstanding reliance
upon the observational and the colloquial, seeking to develop tools
for the anthropologist as reader.
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