Sharīʻa in the Russian Empire : the reach and limits of Islamic law in Central Eurasia, 1550-1917 / edited by Paolo Sartori and Danielle Ross.

This book looks at how Islamic law was practiced in Russia from the conquest of the empire's first Muslim territories in the mid-1500s to the Russian Revolution of 1917, when the empire's Muslim population had exceeded 20 million.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Sartori, Paolo, 1975- (Editor), Ross, Danielle (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • SHARĪʿA IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Introduction: The Reach and Limits of Sharīʿa in the Russian Empire, c.1552-1917
  • 1 Islamic Education for All: Technological Change, Popular Literacy and the Transformation of the Volga-Ural Madrasa, 1650s-1910s
  • 2 Taqlīd and Discontinuity: The Transformation of Islamic Legal Authority in the Volga-Ural Region
  • 3 Debunking the 'Unfortunate Girl' Paradigm: Volga-Ural Muslim Women's Knowledge Culture and its Transformation across the Long Nineteenth Century.
  • 4 Between Imperial Law and Islamic Law: Muslim Subjects and the Legality of Remarriage in Nineteenth-Century Russia
  • 5 Islamic Scholars among the Kereys of Northern Kazakhstan, 1680-1850
  • 6 Tinkering with Codification in the Kazakh Steppe: ʿĀdat and Sharīʿa in the work of Efim Osmolovskii
  • 7 Taqlīd and Ijtihād over the Centuries: The Debates on the Islamic Legal Theory in Daghestan, 1700s-1920s
  • 8 Kunta Ḥājjī and the Stolen Horse
  • 9 What We Talk about When We Talk about Taqlīd in Russian Central Asia.
  • 10 Take Me to Khiva: Sharīʿa as Governance in the Oasis of Khorezm (Nineteenth Century-Early Twentieth)
  • Index.