Legalism
Rules and Categories
Edited by Paul Dresch and Judith Scheele
Author Information
Paul Dresch, Emertius Research Fellow, St John's College, Oxford,Judith Scheele, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford
Paul Dresch is an emeritus Fellow of St John's College, Oxford. His publications include Tribes, Government, and History in Yemen (1989), A History of Modern Yemen (2000), and The Rules of Barat (2006). He has co-edited volumes (with Pierre Bonte and Edouard Conte) on Islamic politics and kinship and (with James Piscatori) on the Arab Gulf. With Hannah Skoda he co-edited Legalism: Anthropology and History (2012).
Judith Scheele is a Social Anthropologist and a Post-Doctoral Research fFellow at All Souls College, Oxford. Her publications include Village Matters: Knowledge, Politics and Community in Kabylia (2009) and Smugglers and Saints of the Sahara: Regional Connectivity in the Twentieth Century (2012). She has co-edited (with James McDougall) Saharan Frontiers: Space and Mobility in Northwest Africa (Indiana UP) and (with Fernanda Pirie) Legalism: Community and Justice (OUP, 2014).
Contributors:
Morgan Clarke is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Keble College.
Donald R. Davis, Jr. is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
Paul Dresch is an emeritus Fellow of St John's College, Oxford.
Elizabeth Ewart is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at University of Oxford.
Simon Franklin is Professor of Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Clare College.
Caroline Humfress is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London.
Fernanda Pirie is Associate Professor in Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of St Cross College.
Alice Rio is Senior Lecturer in Medieval European History at King's College London.
Judith Scheele is a Social Tnthropologist and a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford.