A Historical Study of Muslim Family and Society in Imperial Russia in the Late 19th Century

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24720327
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Asian history
• Research Institution: Kyoto University of Foreign Studies
• Principal Investigator: ISOGAI Masumi 京都外国語大学, 国際言語平和研究所, 嘱託研究員 (90582502)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 中央ユーラシア史 / ロシア帝国 / イスラーム法 / ロシア法 / 法制史 / 社会史 / 家族史 / 国際研究者交流

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The present study makes an attempt to clarify a concrete picture of the Turkic Muslim society in the Volga-Ural region in the late 19th Imperial Russia by analyzing legal institutions and practices of Muslim family and community. Our study particularly explains the institution of Muslim inheritance "according to Sharia law" in the judicial-administrative system of the Empire, and also reveals its actual practices. Major materials examined in our research are judicial-administrative documents from the fond of the Orenburg Muhammadan Ecclesiastical Assembly at the Central State Historical Archives (Tsentral'nyi gosudarstvennyi istoricheskii arkhiv) of the Republic of Bashkortostan in the Russian Federation. Our research explains that qadis of the Ecclesiastical Assembly and imams of mahallas as parish communities dealt with cases of inheritance on the basis of the laws of the Russian Empire procedurally on the whole, while following Islamic law in general for substantive legal issues.

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中央ユーラシア近現代史、ロシア（ヴォルガ・ウラル地域）のムスリム社会におけるウラマーとイスラーム信仰