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Author Messick, Brinkley Morris, author.
Title Sharīa scripts : a historical anthropology / Brinkley Messick
Imprint New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]

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Description vii, 519 pages ; 24 cm
Note Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents Introduction -- Library -- Books -- Pretext : five sciences -- Commentaries: "write it down" -- Opinions -- "Practice with writing" -- Archive -- Intermission -- Judgments -- Minutes -- Moral stipulations -- Contracts -- Postscript
Summary In the first half of Sharīʻa Scripts, Messick looks at the principal types of theoretical or doctrinal juridical texts, which are collectively referred to as the "library," while those of the second half, including the genres produced by the sharīʻa courts and by notarial writers, are termed the "archive." Messick demonstrates the analytic significance of sustained attention to the textual form of written sources such as the doctrinal works, juridical opinions, court records and legal instruments studied here. He suggests that attention to form should be a precondition for wider research, for properly assessing the import of conventional source content, for the writing of history. Messick looks at historical sharīʻa through a particular instance, that of highland Yemen in the first half of the twentieth century. Yemen, of course, is an integral region of the Arabic-speaking heartlands of Islam, and the Zaydī school of jurisprudence that is the specific focus of the book has been rooted there for a millennium. Elsewhere in the same period, colonial regimes and nationalist reformers had begun to alter the political, societal and epistemic existence of the sharīʻa. They acted to replace its criminal, commercial and real estate provisions with western law, and effectively narrowed its sphere of relevance to matters of personal status and family law. In contrast, under the twentieth-century Zaydī imams the sharīʻa remained uncodified; highland sharīʻa courts maintained their historically broad competence; madrassa-trained judges employed classical sharīʻa rules of procedure and evidence; and archives had yet to upended by western-style standards of file-keeping and printed forms
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
Legal documents (Islamic law) -- Yemen (Republic) -- History -- 20th century
Legal documents -- Yemen (Republic) -- History -- 20th century
Genre/Form History. fast
LC NO KMX1046.8 .M47 2018
KMX1046.8 .M47 2018
Dewey No 349.533 23
OCLC # 975269617
ISBN 9780231178747 hardcover ; alkaline paper
0231178743 hardcover ; alkaline paper
9780231541909 electronic book
LCCN 2017003801

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