Shari'a Scripts: A Historical Anthropology

Author/Contributor(s):	Messick, Brinkley
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Date:	07/19/2022
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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