Sharia in the Russian Empire The Reach and Limits of Islamic Law in Central Eurasia, 1550-1900

by Sartori, Paolo; Ross, Danielle

• ISBN13: 9781474444293
• ISBN10: 1474444296
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2020-02-01
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Author Biography

Paolo Sartori is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences. He is the editor of the Brill series Handbooks of Oriental Studies (Section 8 Uralic & Central Asian Studies) and is editor in chief of the Journal of Economic and Social History of the Orient (Brill). He is author of Visions of Justice: Shari'a and Cultural Change in Russian Central Asia (Brill, 2016).

Danielle Ross is Assistant Professor of Asian History in the Department of History at Utah State University. She has published a chapter in Small Nations and Colonial Peripheries in World War I (Brill, 2016).

Table of Contents

Introduction
'The Reach and Limits of Shari'a in the Russian Empire, ca. 1552-1917'; Danielle Ross and Paolo Sartori

Chapter 1
'Islamic Education for All: Technological Change, Popular Literacy, and the Transformation of the Volga-Ural Madrasa, 1650s-1910s'; Danielle Ross

Chapter 2
'Taqlid and Discontinuity: The Transformation of Islamic Legal Authority in the Volga-Ural Region'; Nathan Spannaus

Chapter 3
'Debunking the 'Unfortunate Girl' Paradigm: Volga-Ural Muslim Women's Knowledge Culture and its Transformation across the Long Nineteenth Century'; Danielle Ross

Chapter 4
'Between Imperial Law and Islamic Law: Muslim Subjects and the Legality of Remarriage in Nineteenth-Century Russia'; Rozaliya Garipova

Chapter 5
'Islamic Scholars among the Kereys of Northern Kazakhstan, 1680-1850'; Allen J. Frank

Chapter 6
'Tinkering with Codification in the Kazakh Steppe: 'Adat and Shari'a in the work of Efim Osmolovskii'; Pavel Shabley and Paolo Sartori

Chapter 7
'Taqlid and Ijtihad over the Centuries: The Debates on the Islamic Legal Theory in Daghestan, 1700s-1920s'; Shamil Shikhaliev

Chapter 8
'Kunta 'ajji and the Stolen Horse'; Michael Kemper and Shamil Sh. Shikhaliev

Chapter 9
'What We Talk about When We Talk about Taqlid in Russian Central Asia'; Paolo Sartori

Chapter 10
'Take Me to Khiva: Shari'a as Governance in the Oasis of Khorezm (19th-Early 20th Centuries)'; Ulfat Abdurasulov and Paolo Sartori