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

Contents
List of Contributors
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 the 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