The calligraphic state : textual domination and history in a Muslim society / Brinkley Messick.
1993
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Author
Title
The calligraphic state : textual domination and history in a Muslim society / Brinkley Messick.
Published
Berkeley : University of California Press, [1993]
Printed
[1996]
Copyright
©1993
Call Number
Islam 160 M564 1993
ISBN
0520205154 (pbk.)
0520076052 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520076052 (cloth : alk. paper)
Description
xii, 341 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)24952868
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-331) and index.
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Table of Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1
Pt. I
Authority
13
Ch. 1Genealogies of the Text
15
Ch. 2The Pen and the Sword
37
Ch. 3Disenchantment
54
Pt. II
Transmission
73
Ch. 4Audition
75
Ch. 5The New Method
99
Ch. 6Print Culture
115
Pt. III
Interpretation
133
Ch. 7Relations of Interpretation
135
Ch. 8Sharia Society
152
Ch. 9Judicial Presence
167
Ch. 10Court Order
187
Pt. IV
Inscription
201
Ch. 11Evidence of the Word
203
Ch. 12Spiral Texts
231
Conclusion
251
Biographical Guide
257
Glossary
259
Notes
265
Bibliography
317
Index
333