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Brinkley Messick

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Publications

12

Citations

825

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12

Active since

1983

Affiliations

University of Massachusetts Amherst(Current)

Brinkley Messick is an author at University of Massachusetts Amherst specializing in islamic law, law, and language studies.

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Islamic LawLawLanguageMiddle Eastern StudiesInternational LawIslamArabicIslamic StudiesSocial SciencesCultural Studies

Publications per year

1983–2002

12

Publications

12

The Calligraphic State: Textual Domination and History in a Muslim Society

Gabriele vom Bruck, Brinkley Messick · Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute · 1995 · 465 citations

Islamic Law, Muslim Society, Arabic +14

Islamic Legal Interpretation: Muftis and Their Fatwas

Kathleen N. Moore, Muhammad Khalid Masud, Brinkley Messick et al. · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 1998 · 67 citations

Islamic Law, Their Fatwas, Islam +5

The Mufti, the Text and the World: Legal Interpretation in Yemen

Brinkley Messick · Man · 1986 · 48 citations

Comparative Law, Islamic Law, Comparative Literature +10

Legal documents and the concept of ‘restricted literacy’ in a traditional society

Brinkley Messick · International Journal of the Sociology of Language · 1983 · 46 citations

Culture, Humanities, Traditional Society +15

subordinate discourse: women, weaving, and gender relations in North Africa

Brinkley Messick · American Ethnologist · 1987 · 46 citations

African Literature, Subordinate Discourse, Education +26

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