The calligraphic state : textual domination and history in a Muslim society

書誌事項

The calligraphic state : textual domination and history in a Muslim society

Brinkley Messick

(Comparative studies on Muslim societies, 16)

University of California Press, 1996, c1993

  • : pbk

大学図書館所蔵 件 / 4

この図書・雑誌をさがす

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-331) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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.

目次

ILLUSTRATIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION PART I* AUTHORITY Chapter 1. Genealogies of the Text Chapter 2. The Pen and the Sword Chapter 3. Disenchantment PART II* TRANSMISSION Chapter 4. Audition Chapter 5. The New Method Chapter 6. Print Culture PART III* INTERPRETATION Chapter 7. Relations of Interpretation Chapter 8. Shari'a Society Chapter 9. Judicial Presence Chapter I0. Court Order PART IV* INSCRIPTION Chapter 11. Evidence of the Word Chapter 12. Spiral Texts CONCLUSION BIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE GLOSSARY NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

「Nielsen BookData」 より

関連文献: 1件中  1-1を表示

詳細情報

ページトップへ