Calligraphic State
Textual Domination and History in a Muslim Society
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19600596 |
|---|---|
| Editors | Brinkley Messick |
| Year | 1993 |
| Pages | 324 |
| Publication date | 1993-12-31 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Calligraphic State (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/9780520917828 |
| OpenAlex | W4389386787 |
| Open Library | OL29603280M |
| ISBN | 9780520917828 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 410 |
In this innovative combination of anthropology, history, and postmodern theory, Brinkley Messick examines the changing relation of writing and authority in a Muslim society from the late nineteenth 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. Yet few scholars have explored this process and the ways in which it changes, especially outside the Western world. 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 nonwestern states as well
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Positive Law from the Muslim World
The Intricacies of Capturing the Holdings of a Mosque Library in Yemen
Shedding Light on the Modalities of Authority in a Dar al-Uloom, or Religious Seminary, in Britain
Mediality and materiality in religious performance
The Quran in Practice in Morocco
Une génération après… La mémoire du passé ottoman dans l’autobiographie yéménite contemporaine
Escritura árabe ornamental y epigrafía andalusí
The Faded Bond
Écrire l’au-delà
Laïcité, sociologie et histoire contemporaine de l'islam
À la poursuite de la réforme
Two Islamic Writing Traditions in Southeast Asia
New Media, New Publics
Hefty Dictionaries in Incomprehensible Tongues
Writing the Body
Diary or Notebook
Women and Dower Property in Twentieth-Century Palestine
Bibliography of Periodical Literature
The Cambridge Handbook of Literacy
Negotiating Mughal Law
Introduction
Settler Colonialism, Surveillance, and Fear
The Anthropology of Texts, Persons and Publics
New networks and new knowledge
Justice between Islamic Sharia and Liberal Law
Burning with Reverence
Islam, Politics, Anthropology
Refiguring Islam
The Seduction of Law
The Foundation of Norms in Islamic Jurisprudence and Theology
Storytelling, Sincerity, and Islamic Televangelism in Egypt
An Introduction to Islamic Law
Public and Private in Middle Eastern Women's History
Culture and politics in Iran since the 1979 revolution
The New Cambridge History of Islam
Documents and Bureaucracy
Reflections on Religious Difference and Permissive Inclusion in Mughal Law
Sharī'a
Open Sounds, Hidden Spaces
Illegibility
Discourse, pragmatic, and textual analysis of the body in Sunni Islam
Literacy
The Popularizing of Sunni Doctrine In Southeast Asia
The Popularizing of Sunni Doctrine in Southeast Asia
The Vocabulary of Revelation
Intellectual mobility and urban institutions in the transregional knowledge ecosystem of Islamic civilization
Before Technopolitics
The Bohras as Neo-Fāṭimids
Before Colonialism
The hybrid and asymmetrical pluralism of Shari’a and tribal justice in Syria
Reconceptualizing Secularization and Secularism
Legal Subjectivity in Colonial Minangkabau
The Republic of Letters
Orientalist and Revisionist Histories of ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti
Religious authorities in the digital age
Islam nuanced
Narratives of Arabic Script
Cultural memories of the conquest of al-Andalus between the ninth and twelfth centuries, C.E
The bounds of identity
Globalization, State Formation and Religion in the Middle East
Gender, Conflict, and Muslim-Jewish Romance
Under the Influence? Translations and Transgressions in Late Ottoman Imperial Thought
New Perspectives on the Legal History of the Middle East? Rediscovering Jacques Berque, the “Field Historian”
Lost and found, then lost again? The social history of workers and peasants in the modern Middle East
Book history, print, and the Middle East
Histories of law and economic life in the Islamic world
The Formation of National Culture in Egypt in the Interwar Period
Kabul cosmopolitan
Comparative Criminal Justice in the Era of Modernity
A late eighteenth-century probatio pennae from Batavia
Justice and Tyranny, Law and the State in the Middle East
Islamic Law, Truth, Ethics
Dialectic of Ijtihad
Listening to Rights Talk in Damascus
The Sovereign and the Sensible
Ignorance
Who speaks for Islam
Qur’anic Studies between University Theology and the Humanities
Islamic pedagogy and embodiment
Muslim Family Laws in Israel and Greece
Redefining Islamic Tradition
The Making of Colonial and Postcolonial Law by South Asian Muslims
The Pursuit of the Perak Regalia
Una galería de retratos reales
Bandits and “Bad Characters”
Paper Routes
Imperialism and the creation of local law
A New Anthropology of Islam
Media authenticity and authority in Mauritius
Pedagogies of Affection
Inheritance, Heritage, and the Disinherited
Masculine Talk
The contested public lives of middle eastern women
The royal veil
Commentaries, Print and Patronage
From the Archetypical Archive to Cultures of Documentation
The Protectors of Religion and Community
The Persisting Spectre of Cultural Decline
Seeing Like a Khedivate
Legal Pluralism in Muslim-Majority Colonies
| Unique citing works | 313 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 11,71 |
| Citation span | 1991 - 2026 (36) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 394 |