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Representing one of the largest private manuscript collections today available in Daghestan, this manuscript library covers an impressive chronological range, i.e., from the 17th to the middle of the 20th century. The collection is now hosted at the mosque of the village of Karabudakhkent in the Republic of Dagestan (Russian Federation) and it includes 302 codices and printed books, and 280 documentary items crafted in Arabic and Turkic languages.
As a whole, the present collection stands out for it offers to date one of the most vivid reflections of the functioning of Islamic law within the context of the Soviet South. More specifically, its documentary section shows how, despite the violent secularist policies promoted by the USSR, many Dagestani scholars continued to offer their opinions (fatwas) on specific points of Sharia. This catalogue is a must-have for historians specialising in Islamic writing traditions in the 20th century.
As a whole, the present collection stands out for it offers to date one of the most vivid reflections of the functioning of Islamic law within the context of the Soviet South. More specifically, its documentary section shows how, despite the violent secularist policies promoted by the USSR, many Dagestani scholars continued to offer their opinions (fatwas) on specific points of Sharia. This catalogue is a must-have for historians specialising in Islamic writing traditions in the 20th century.
Price: $205.00
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Islamic Manuscripts and Books
Publication Date:
07 January 2027
ISBN: 9789004777620
Format: Hardcover
Shamil Shikhaliev (PhD, 2007) is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Iranian Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He currently leads a project devoted to the study of Muslim intellectual biographies in Soviet-ruled Caucasus, funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). He is the author of Portrait of a Soviet Islamicist: Muhammad Said-Saidov (1902-1985) (Vienna, 2026).
Paolo Sartori (Ph.D., 2006) is Senior Research Associate at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, where he also serves as the Chairman of the Committee for the Study of Islam in Central Eurasia (1552–2000s). He is the author of A Soviet Sultanate: Islam in Socialist Uzbekistan, 1943-1991 (Vienna, 2024).
Paolo Sartori (Ph.D., 2006) is Senior Research Associate at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, where he also serves as the Chairman of the Committee for the Study of Islam in Central Eurasia (1552–2000s). He is the author of A Soviet Sultanate: Islam in Socialist Uzbekistan, 1943-1991 (Vienna, 2024).