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

Brinkley Morris Messick c1993 © University of California Press
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  • 9780520076051 (hardcover)
  • 9780520917828 (ebook)
  • 9780520205154 (paper)
Subject
  • Middle Eastern: General & Multiperiod
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • ILLUSTRATIONS (page ix)
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (page xi)
  • INTRODUCTION (page 1)
  • PART I AUTHORITY (page 13)
    • Chapter 1. Genealogies of the Text (page 15)
    • Chapter 2. The Pen and the Sword (page 37)
    • Chapter 3. Disenchantment (page 54)
  • PART II TRANSMISSION (page 73)
    • Chapter 4. Audition (page 75)
    • Chapter 5. The New Method (page 99)
    • Chapter 6. Print Culture (page 115)
  • PART III INTERPRETATION (page 133)
    • Chapter 7. Relations of Interpretation (page 135)
    • Chapter 8. Shari‛a Society (page 152)
    • Chapter 9. Judicial Presence (page 167)
    • Chapter 10. Court Order (page 187)
  • PART IV INSCRIPTION (page 201)
    • Chapter 11. Evidence of the Word (page 203)
    • Chapter 12. Spiral Texts (page 231)
  • CONCLUSION (page 251)
  • BIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE (page 257)
  • GLOSSARY (page 259)
  • NOTES (page 265)
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY (page 317)
  • INDEX (page 333)
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JRAI 1.2 (Jun. 1995): 448-449 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=1359-0987%28199506%291%3A2%3C448%3A%3E2.0.CO%3B2-G
BJMES 21.2 (1994): 286-288 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=1353-0194%281994%2921%3A2%3C286%3ATCSTDA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-U
IJMES 26.2 (May 1994): 347-349 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0020-7438%28199405%2926%3A2%3C347%3ATCSTDA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-W
AE 22.1 (Feb. 1995): 197-198 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0094-0496%28199502%2922%3A1%3C197%3ATCSTDA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-G
JNES 61.1 (Jan. 2002): 59-60 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-2968%28200201%2961%3A1%3C59%3ATCSTDA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-P
AANTH 96.2 (June 1994): 440-441 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-7294%28199406%292%3A96%3A2%3C440%3ATCSTDA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-U
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