The grammars of adjudication the economics of judicial decision making in fin-de-siècle Ottoman Beirut and Damascus
Most studies on Islamic, Arab, and Ottoman societies and civilizations are trapped into the evidentiary role of the texts that researchers have at their disposal, considerably reducing the role of text and language to a mimetic description of what happened. This book argues that an understanding of...
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| Formato: | Electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Beyrouth :
Presses de l'Ifpo
2013.
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| Colección: | OpenEdition ebooks.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b42874270*spi |
| Sumario: | Most studies on Islamic, Arab, and Ottoman societies and civilizations are trapped into the evidentiary role of the texts that researchers have at their disposal, considerably reducing the role of text and language to a mimetic description of what happened. This book argues that an understanding of social relations primarily implies taking into consideration the textual production of society in terms of the meanings that could be ascribed to the texts themselves, and, second, that the analysis of texts, whatever their societal and institutional contexts, should look at its sources as discursive practices, in order not to reduce them to their preliminary role of bearers of factual evidence. Drawing from a large variety of Ottoman "legal" texts from nineteenth-century Beirut and Damascus, this book avoids ascribing such texts to the normative values of "Islamic law," by documenting instead how various discursive practices concretely operate within a particular terrain. Different levels of practises therefore emerge, all of which documented by the social actors that made their existence possible. La plupart des études sur les sociétés islamiques, arabes et ottomanes se contentent du rôle de témoignage que peuvent jouer les textes à disposition des chercheurs, réduisant ainsi le rôle du texte et du langage à une description mimétique des événements passés. Il s'agit ici de montrer que toute compréhension des relations sociales implique, d'abord, de considérer la production textuelle d'une société en interrogeant le sens assignable aux textes eux-mêmes. Elle suppose également que l'analyse des textes, quel que soit leur contexte sociétal et institutionnel, doit considérer ses sources en tant que pratiques discursives, afin de ne pas les réduire à leur fonction préliminaire de témoignage factuel.... |
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| Notas: | IFPO = Institut français du Proche-Orient. En appendice, choix de documents. La pagination de l'édition imprimée correspondante est de 745 pages. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 recurso electrónico |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9782351592694 |
