Glory of pen and sword with the present solemnity of printed text and This is no nostalgic comparison of the past Reader will appreciate the enviable strengths and easily overlooked Legitimate conclusion about the effects on authority which the passageįrom the written to the printed text has had over the last two centuriesĪs the author recounts changes which are overtaking the Yemen, the The state, in both a political and a psychological sense, wasĮstablished on the basis of the authority which these individualsĪrticulated in their use of the pen. Judge, and the ruler implemented and sustained an ordered lifestyle for There, the writing practice of such personalities as the lawyer, the Scholarship in evidence until the advent of modern times in the Yemen. Itīegins with the original and now irretrievably lost complex of Muslim The Calligraphic State is a highly imaginative and persuasiveĪnalysis of the relationship between writing and authority in Islam. 16.īerkeley: University of California Press, 1993. Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies, No. APA style: The Calligraphic State: Textual Domination and History in a Muslim Society.The Calligraphic State: Textual Domination and History in a Muslim Society." Retrieved from MLA style: "The Calligraphic State: Textual Domination and History in a Muslim Society." The Free Library.
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