TY - JOUR
T1 - The rabbit, the duck, and the study of central Asian legal documents
AU - Welsford, Thomas
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2013 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2012/10
Y1 - 2012/10
N2 - The present paper conceptualises two distinct ways in which scholars may try to make sense of a document or set of documents, and considers why so few attempts are made to marry these two approaches. By subjecting the collected contents of an early 20th-century documentary scroll from Nasaf first to an 'evocative' reading and then to an 'antiphonal' one, I consider what we may glean from considering each reading in the light of the other.
AB - The present paper conceptualises two distinct ways in which scholars may try to make sense of a document or set of documents, and considers why so few attempts are made to marry these two approaches. By subjecting the collected contents of an early 20th-century documentary scroll from Nasaf first to an 'evocative' reading and then to an 'antiphonal' one, I consider what we may glean from considering each reading in the light of the other.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84873800748&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=84873800748&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1515/islam-2012-0013
DO - 10.1515/islam-2012-0013
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84873800748
VL - 88
SP - 258
EP - 278
JO - Islam - Zeitschrift fur Geschichte und Kultur des Islamischen Orients
JF - Islam - Zeitschrift fur Geschichte und Kultur des Islamischen Orients
SN - 0021-1818
IS - 2
ER -