Sharia Scripts A Historical Anthropology
- New York Columbia University Press 2018
- 519p
includes index and biblioraphy
Introduction ..1 Imamic yemen ...11 Liberary and archive ...20 The anthropologist as reaer ...33 Chapter ...52 Part 1 Library One: book ...57 Madhhab ...61 The book of flowers ...62 Commentary ...65 The gilded crown ...70 The flowers in lower yemen ...91 Judges in Ibb ...96 Two : pretext five science ...100 An interpreter ...105 Who is just ...129 Three : commentaries : Write it down ...134 Tafsir ...136 Fiqh ...142 Four: opinions ..157 Sourcing ...161 Fatwa ...167 Choice ...176 Five : Practice with writing ...195 Choice ...196 Inquiry ...199 Part II : Archive Six : Intermission ...217 Scripts ...219 Historical specificity ...229 Theories of archival practice ...237 Written custom ...246 Seven : Judgments ...249 Sourcing ...253 Judgment ...256 Registers ...272 Petitions ...280 Eight : Minutes ...285 Sharia names ...291 Quotation ...297 False wtiting ...308 Nine : Moral stipulations ...321 Notarial writers ...322 Histories of the forms ...327 Models ...329 Sourcing ...332 The science of writing ...333 The adab of the writer ...338 Branching texts ...343 Ten : Contraxcts ...347 Sale ...353 Lease ...372 Marriage ...385 An analytic ...401 Postscript ...404 Notes ...409 Manuscripts and archival materilas ...477