Shari'a in the Russian Empire: The Reach and Limits of Islamic Law in Central Eurasia, 1550-1917

Shari'a in the Russian Empire

The Reach and Limits of Islamic Law in Central Eurasia, 1550-1917

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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Shari'a in the Russian Empire

The Reach and Limits of Islamic Law in Central Eurasia, 1550-1917

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of Contributors
pp vii-x

Introduction: The Reach and Limits of Sharīʿa in the Russian Empire, c.1552–1917
pp 1-37

1 - Islamic Education for All: Technological Change, Popular Literacy and the Transformation of the Volga-Ural Madrasa, 1650s–1910s
pp 38-80

2 - Taqlīd and Discontinuity: The Transformation of Islamic Legal Authority in the Volga-Ural Region
pp 81-119

3 - Debunking the ‘Unfortunate Girl’ Paradigm: Volga-Ural Muslim Women’s Knowledge Culture and its Transformation across the Long Nineteenth Century
pp 120-155

4 - Between Imperial Law and Islamic Law: Muslim Subjects and the Legality of Remarriage in Nineteenth-century Russia
pp 156-182

5 - Islamic Scholars among the Kereys of Northern Kazakhstan, 1680–1850
pp 183-208

6 - Tinkering with Codification in the Kazakh Steppe: ʿĀdat and Sharīʿa in the Work of Efim Osmolovskii
pp 209-238

7 - Taqlīd and Ijtihād over the Centuries: The Debates on Islamic Legal Theory in Daghestan, 1700s–1920s
pp 239-280

8 - Kunta Ḥājjī and the Stolen Horse
pp 281-298

9 - What We Talk about When We Talk about Taqlīd in Russian Central Asia
pp 299-327

10 - Take Me to Khiva: Sharīʿa as Governance in the Oasis of Khorezm (Nineteenth Century–Early Twentieth)
pp 328-362

Index
pp 363-373

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