Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contents vii
4. Introduction: The Reach and Limits of Sharīʿa in the Russian Empire, c.1552–1917 1
5. 1 Islamic Education for All: Technological Change, Popular Literacy and the Transformation of the Volga-Ural Madrasa, 1650s–1910s 38
6. 2 Taqlīd and Discontinuity: The Transformation of Islamic Legal Authority in the Volga-Ural Region 81
7. 3 Debunking the ‘Unfortunate Girl’ Paradigm: Volga-Ural Muslim Women’s Knowledge Culture and its Transformation across the Long Nineteenth Century 120
8. 4 Between Imperial Law and Islamic Law: Muslim Subjects and the Legality of Remarriage in Nineteenth-century Russia 156
9. 5 Islamic Scholars among the Kereys of Northern Kazakhstan, 1680–1850 183
10. 6 Tinkering with Codification in the Kazakh Steppe: ʿĀdat and Sharīʿa in the Work of Efim Osmolovskii 209
11. 7 Taqlīd and Ijtihād over the Centuries: The Debates on Islamic Legal Theory in Daghestan, 1700s–1920s 239
12. 8 Kunta Ḥājjī and the Stolen Horse 281
13. 9 What We Talk about When We Talk about Taqlīd in Russian Central Asia 299
14. 10 Take Me to Khiva: Sharīʿa as Governance in the Oasis of Khorezm (Nineteenth Century–Early Twentieth) 328
15. Index 363