Brinkley Messick
Islamic Culture, Director of Graduate Studies
Chair of the Anthropology Department
604 Kent Hall
212-854-4552
bmm23@columbia.edu

Brinkley Messick is Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Anthropology Department. He teaches graduate courses on such topics as the anthropology of law and the analysis of written culture, and an undergraduate course on "Muslim Societies." He is the author of The Calligraphic State California, 1993) and a co-editor of Islamic Legal Interpretation (Harvard, 1996). He currently is at work on a book on the doctrine and court practice of shari`a law in the pre-revolutionary twentieth century Islamic state of highland Yemen.