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dc.contributor.advisorZaman, Muhammad Qen_US
dc.contributor.advisorReynolds, Michael Aen_US
dc.contributor.authorGaripova, Rozaliyaen_US
dc.contributor.otherNear Eastern Studies Departmenten_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-09-16T17:26:00Z-
dc.date.available2015-09-16T05:10:04Z-
dc.date.issued2013en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp016395w721f-
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation examines the religious transformation of the Volga-Ural Muslim community during the long nineteenth century with a special focus on the <italic>ulama</italic> and <italic>shari&lsquo;a</italic>. It argues that these Islamic institutions as well as the Muslim population have experienced important changes after the Russian state established the Orenburg Muslim Spiritual Assembly in 1788. Since that time and throughout the nineteenth century, Russian statesmen introduced numerous laws that affected the Volga-Ural Muslim community. Many of these laws were designed to regulate specifically the religious life of Muslims, thus reformulating traditional religious practices through state law. The state created new rules for the appointment of the <italic>ulama</italic>, construction of mosques, functions of religious scholars within the Muslim community, procedures on how to perform marriage or divide inheritance. This allowed the state to intervene deeper into the Muslim community, braking traditional communal relationships and affecting the practice of <italic>shari&lsquo;a</italic> in unprecedented ways. This also prompted state officials to sanction the violation of these laws. The creation of the Orenburg Assembly as a court of appeal was itself a big novelty for the Volga-Ural Muslims. The possibility to appeal to a higher legal authority led to an increase in the number of appeals by Muslim lay people in the nineteenth century and decrease in the authority of traditional legal experts -- the <italic>akhund</italic>s. Moreover, it distorted traditional organic legal order turning the resolution of <italic>shari&lsquo;a</italic> disputes from a communal matter resolved within the <italic>mahalla</italic> to a practice regulated from above by a state institution, again drawing imperial authorities closer into the Muslim community. The existence of the OA and the legal pluralistic framework also facilitated state intervention into substantive law, thus redefining the practice of Muslim marriage.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherPrinceton, NJ : Princeton Universityen_US
dc.relation.isformatofThe Mudd Manuscript Library retains one bound copy of each dissertation. Search for these copies in the <a href=http://catalog.princeton.edu> library's main catalog </a>en_US
dc.subjectIslamic Lawen_US
dc.subjectLegal pluralismen_US
dc.subjectRussian Empireen_US
dc.subjectUlamaen_US
dc.subjectVolga-Ural Muslimsen_US
dc.subject.classificationReligionen_US
dc.subject.classificationRussian historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationNear Eastern studiesen_US
dc.titleThe Transformation of the <italic>Ulama</italic> and The <italic>Shari&lsquo;a</italic> in the Volga-Ural Muslim Community under Russian Imperial Ruleen_US
dc.typeAcademic dissertations (Ph.D.)en_US
pu.projectgrantnumber690-2143en_US
pu.embargo.terms2015-09-16en_US
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