Sharīʿa in the Russian Empire : : The Reach and Limits of Islamic Law in Central Eurasia, 1550-1917 / / Paolo Sartori, Danielle Ross.

Studies the formulation, transmission and application of Islamic law under Russian colonial rulePresents the theory and application of Islamic law in the Volga-Ural region, the Kazakh Steppe, the north Caucasus and Central Asia from the 1550s to 1917Draws comparisons between Islamic law in Russia an...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.) :; 1 B/W illustrations 5 B/W tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Contents
  • 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 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