ISBN:
0520076052
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
Comparative studies on Muslim societies 16
Series Statement:
Comparative studies on muslim societies
DDC:
306.089927533
Keywords:
Islam Yemen
;
Manuscripts, Arabic Public opinion
;
Yemen
;
Islamic law Yemen
;
Diplomatics, Arabic History
;
Yemen
;
Public opinion Yemen
;
Islam
;
Manuscripts, Arabic Public opinion
;
Islamic law
;
Diplomatics, Arabic History
;
Public opinion
;
Yemen Civilization
;
20th century
;
Yemen Civilization 20th century
;
Islam
;
Yemen
;
Manuscripts,
;
Yemen
;
Public
;
opinion
;
Islamic
;
Yemen
;
Yemen
;
Civilization
;
20th
;
century
;
Diplomatics,
;
Yemen
;
History
;
Public
;
Yemen
;
Jemen
;
Islam
;
Sozialgeschichte
Abstract:
This book examines the changing relation between writing and authority in a Muslim society. Its backdrop is the end of an era of reed pens and personal seals, of handwritten books and professional copyists, of lesson circles in mosques and knowledge recited from memory, of court judgments on lengthy scrolls and scribes toiling behind slant-topped desks. As understood here, the calligraphic state was both a political entity and a discursive condition. My aims are to reconstruct one such textual polity and detail its gradual transformation in recent times. In highland Yemen, located in the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula, the initial inroads of the printing press, new-method schools, and novel conceptions about the state and its texts date to the late nineteenth century.
Note:
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