Brinkley Messick

Le jugement d'un tribunal sharʻî prononcé dans une affaire de meurtre, au Yémen, dans les années 1960, sert de point de départ à une analyse visant à promouvoir une « anthropologie archivistique ». Ce projet anthropologique et historique procède à la lecture attentive du jugement, à l'aide de méthod...

Parution: Hassan Ansari, Sabine Schmidtke (eds), Yemeni Manuscript Cultures in Peril, Gorgias Press, 2022

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Chargé de diffusion scientifique (2 déc. 2022)

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Yemeni Manuscript Cultures in Peril Edited by Hassan Ansari & Sabine Schmidtke; Contribution by Stefanie Brinkmann, Gabriele vom Bruck, Bernard Haykel, Brinkley Messick, Christoph Rauch, Anne Regourd, Valentina Sagaria Rossi, Karin Scheper, Jan Thiele, Daniel Martin Varisco, Arnoud Vrolijk & Zai...

Messick Brinkley. — Sharīʿa Scripts: A Historical Anthropology

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Ghislaine Lydon (21 nov. 2019)

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Brinkley Messick’s long-awaited book is the fruit of several decades of reflection on the practice of Islamic law, following his 1993 classic The Calligraphic State. It is set in the author’s research terrain of predilection: Yemen’s central highlands in and around the city of Ibb. This predominantl...

The Calligraphic State, Brinkley Messick

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Claire Joubert (28 févr. 2018)

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Textual Domination and History in a Muslim Society, 1992, Berkeley, UofCaliforniaP. On Yemen. Pragmatics writ large. The theoretical imagination of it, the scope. The « textual polity » (polities) of the shari’a, and the practices of authority generated through it. And the usual historic fold when t...

Brinkley Messick, The Calligraphie State. Textual Domination and History in a Muslim Society. University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford, 1993

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Franck Mermier (1996)

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Mermier Franck. Brinkley Messick, The Calligraphie State. Textual Domination and History in a Muslim Society. University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford, 1993. In: Bulletin critique des annales islamologiques, n°12, 1996. pp. 192-194.

Brinkley Messick, The Calligraphic State. Textual Domination and History in a Muslim Society

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Houari Touati (1994)

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Touati Houari. Brinkley Messick, The Calligraphic State. Textual Domination and History in a Muslim Society. In: Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales. 49ᵉ année, N. 4, 1994. pp. 996-999.