Visions of Justice - Sharīʿa and Cultural Change in Russian Central Asia

In Visions of Justice Paolo Sartori surveys the role of Russian colonialism in affecting the way in which Muslims in Central Asia formulated their convictions about right and wrong and became exposed to different notions of morality.

About the author

Paolo Sartori, Ph.D. (2006), is Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of Iranian Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He specializes in the history of Islamic Central Asia (17th-20th centuries), law, imperial history and colonialism. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient (Brill).

Product details

• Authors: Paolo Sartori
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.11.2016
• EAN: 9789004330894
• ISBN: 978-90-04-33089-4
• No. of pages: 408
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 236 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 703 g
• Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies.
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries