Shari'a Scripts: A Historical Anthropology

by Brinkley Messick (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2018

  $77.36

  Shariʿa 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 shariʿa as a localized and lived phenomenon in a groundbreaking examination of the interpretative range and insights offered by the anthropologist as reader.