Visions of Justice

Sharīʿa and Cultural Change in Russian Central Asia
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-33089-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 24, 392 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 703 g

Reihe: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 8 Uralic & Central Asian Studies

Visions of Justice offers an exploration of legal consciousness among the Muslim communities of Central Asia from the end of the eighteenth century through the fall of the Russian Empire. Paolo Sartori surveys how colonialism affected the way in which Muslims formulated their convictions about entitlements and became exposed to different notions of morality. Situating his work within a range of debates about colonialism and law, legal pluralism, and subaltern subjectivity, Sartori puts the study of Central Asia on a broad, conceptually sophisticated, comparative footing. Drawing from a wealth of Arabic, Persian, Turkic and Russian sources, this book provides a thoughtful critique of method and considers some of the contrasting ways in which material from Central Asian archives may most usefully be read.

Publication in Open Access was made possible by a grant from the Volkswagen Foundation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sartori, Paolo

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Islamisches Recht
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islamisches Recht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration and Nomenclature
Abbreviations
List of Maps and Illustrations

Introduction
Chapter One: The Islamic Juridical Field in Central Asia, ca. 1785-1918
Chapter Two: Native Judges into Colonial Scapegoats
Chapter Three: The Bureaucratization of Land Tenure
Chapter Four: Annulling Charitable Endowments
Chapter Five: Fatwas for Muslims, Opinions for Russians
Epilogue: The Legacy: Opportunities from Colonialism
Appendixes I-IV
Glossary of Islamic Terms
Archival Files Consulted
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Paolo Sartori, Ph.D. (2006), is Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of Iranian Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He specializes in the history of Islamic Central Asia (17th-20th centuries), law, imperial history and colonialism. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient (Brill).