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4. Messick Brinkley. — Sharīʿa Scripts: A Historical Anthropology

Author

Lydon, Ghislaine

Abstract

Brinkley Messick’s long-awaited book is the fruit of several decades of reflection on the practice of Islamic law, following his 1993 classic The Calligraphic State. It is set in the author’s research terrain of predilection: Yemen’s central highlands in and around the city of Ibb. This predominantly agrarian world is rather distinct, as it never experienced colonial rule directly, neither under the Ottomans nor at the hands of subsequent foreign powers. Another exceptionalism is the nature o...

Published
2019

5. Defining Regions of Pre-Colonial Africa: A Controlled Vocabulary for Linking Open-Source Data in Digital History Projects.

Author

Lovejoy, Henry B., Lovejoy, Paul E., Hawthorne, Walter, Alpers, Edward A., Candido, Mariana, Hopper, Matthew S., Lydon, Ghislaine, Kriger, Colleen E., and Thornton, John

Subjects
AFRICAN diaspora, DIGITAL humanities, VOCABULARY, AFRICAN history, DATA analysis
Abstract

Regionalizing pre-colonial Africa aids in the collection and interpretation of primary sources as data for further analysis. This article includes a map with six broad regions and 34 sub-regions, which form a controlled vocabulary within which researchers may geographically organize and classify disparate pieces of information related to Africa's past. In computational terms, the proposed African regions serve as data containers in order to consolidate, link, and disseminate research among a growing trend in digital humanities projects related to the history of the African diasporas before c. 1900. Our naming of regions aims to avoid terminologies derived from European slave traders, colonialism, and modern-day countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2021
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