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Shar??A in the Russian Empire: The Reach and Limits of Islamic Law in Central Eurasia, 1550-1917

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Shar??A in the Russian Empire: The Reach and Limits of Islamic Law in Central Eurasia, 1550-1917 - Sartori, Paolo (Editor), and Ross, Danielle (Editor)
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This book looks at how Islamic law was practised 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. It focuses on the training of Russian Muslim jurists, the debates over legal authority within Muslim communities and the relationship between Islamic law and 'customary' law.Drawing on difficult-to-access sources written in a variety of non-Russian languages (Arabic, Chaghatay, Kazakh, Persian, ...

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Shar??A in the Russian Empire: The Reach and Limits of Islamic Law in Central Eurasia, 1550-1917 2021, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh

ISBN-13: 9781474444309

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