Seeking Justice at the Court of the Khans of Khiva - (19th - Early 20th Centuries)

In Seeking Justice at the Court of the Khans of Khiva, Sartori and Abdurasulov show that in Khorezm prior to Sovietization the dispensation of justice according to Islamic law depended mostly on a group of officials representing the dynasty in power, and lacking specialised legal training.

About the author

Paolo Sartori, Ph.D. (2006), University of Rome 'la Sapienza' is Senior Fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He is the author of Visions of Justice: Sharīʿa and Cultural Change in Russian Central Asia (Brill, 2016) and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient.
Ulfat Abdurasulov, Ph.D. (2009), History Institute, Tashkent, is Senior Fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. A recipient of many grants, he published in many scientific journals such as Iranian Studies, Ab Imperio, Eurasian Studies, Islamic Law and Society, and Der Islam.

Product details

• Authors: Ulfat Abdurasulov, Paolo Sartori
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.06.2020
• EAN: 9789004419391
• ISBN: 978-90-04-41939-1
• No. of pages: 482
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 236 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 816 g
• Series: Brill's Inner Asian Library
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous