Shari'a Scripts: A Historical Anthropology by Brinkley Messick

Shari'a Scripts: A Historical Anthropology

Brinkley Messick

536 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history religion sociology challenging informative medium-paced
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A case study in the textual architecture of the venerable legal and ethical tradition at the center of the Islamic experience, Sharīʿa Scripts is a work of historical anthropology focused on Yemen in the early twentieth century. There--while colon...

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