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Intertwined Histories: Islamic Law and Western Imperialism

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Brinkley Messick, The Calligraphic State: Textual Domination and History in a Muslim Society. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. xii + 341 pp. $40.00.

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

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Copyright
Copyright © 1997 by The Law and Society Association.

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Footnotes

I would like to thank Joel Beinen, George Collier, John Comaroff, Saba Mahmood, Bill Maurer, Sally Merry, and Barbara Yngvesson for their helpful comments on earlier drafts. They are in no way responsible for problems that remain.

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