The Calligraphic State: Textual Domination and History in a Muslim Society - Couverture rigide

Messick, Brinkley

 
9780520076051: The Calligraphic State: Textual Domination and History in a Muslim Society

Synopsis

This study examines the changing relation of writing and authority in a Muslim society from the late 19th 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. Messick brings together intensive ethnography and textual analysis from a wealth of material: Islamic jurisprudence, Yemeni histories, local documents. In exploring the structure and transformation of literacy, law, and statecraft in Yemen, he raises important issues that are of comparative significance for understanding political life in other Muslim and non-Western states as well.

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À propos de l?auteur

Brinkley Messick is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan.

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9780520205154: The Calligraphic State: Textual Domination and History in a Muslim Society

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0520205154 ISBN 13 :  9780520205154
Editeur : University of California Press, 1996
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