Messick Brinkley. — Sharīʿa Scripts: A Historical Anthropology
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عنوان ژورنال: Cahiers d'études africaines
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0008-0055,1777-5353
DOI: 10.4000/etudesafricaines.28242