TEXTUAL PROPERTIES - WRITING AND WEALTH IN A SHARIA CASE

This textual ethnography concerns an estate property case from an Isla mic law court in mid-twentieth-century Yemen. My analysis relates the textual work of the judge-author, specifically his authoritative const ruction of a decisive judgment, utilizing written and spoken evidentia l texts, pleadings, and doctrinal sources, to the structural conflicts of wealth in a extended family of the period.