Creating a Colonial Shari'a for Russian Turkestan. Count Pahlen, the Hidaya, and Anglo-Muhammadan Law

Alexander Morrison

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Abstract

This paper examines an instance of colonial ‘borrowing’ by the Russian colonial regime in Turkestan in the early 1900s. It looks at Russian interest in the policies of other colonial powers (primarily Britain and France) to help them solve problems of governance and administration among the Muslims of their Central Asian possessions. This led the commission of inspection led by Senator Count K. K. Pahlen, which toured the region in 1908-9, to attempt to use a code of Anglo-Muhammadan law developed in British India as the basis for a colonial codification of the Shari‘a in Turkestan. This attempt ended in fiasco, but it is revealing of Russian participation in a common colonial enterprise in the Muslim world, and of a shared colonial episteme.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationImperial Co-operation and Transfer, 1870-1930 Empires and Encounters
EditorsVolker Barth, Roland Cvetkovski
Place of PublicationLondon
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
Pages127-149
Number of pages22
ISBN (Print)9781472592132
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015

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Turkestan
Sharia
Colonies
Muslims
France
Participation
Codification
1900s
Possession
Asia
Governance
Enterprise
Episteme
British India
Colonial Power
Borrowing

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Morrison, A. (2015). Creating a Colonial Shari'a for Russian Turkestan. Count Pahlen, the Hidaya, and Anglo-Muhammadan Law. In V. Barth, & R. Cvetkovski (Eds.), Imperial Co-operation and Transfer, 1870-1930 Empires and Encounters (pp. 127-149). London: Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474256100

Creating a Colonial Shari'a for Russian Turkestan. Count Pahlen, the Hidaya, and Anglo-Muhammadan Law. / Morrison, Alexander.

Imperial Co-operation and Transfer, 1870-1930 Empires and Encounters. ed. / Volker Barth; Roland Cvetkovski. London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015. p. 127-149.

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Morrison, A 2015, Creating a Colonial Shari'a for Russian Turkestan. Count Pahlen, the Hidaya, and Anglo-Muhammadan Law. in V Barth & R Cvetkovski (eds), Imperial Co-operation and Transfer, 1870-1930 Empires and Encounters. Bloomsbury Publishing, London, pp. 127-149. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474256100
Morrison A. Creating a Colonial Shari'a for Russian Turkestan. Count Pahlen, the Hidaya, and Anglo-Muhammadan Law. In Barth V, Cvetkovski R, editors, Imperial Co-operation and Transfer, 1870-1930 Empires and Encounters. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. 2015. p. 127-149 https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474256100
Morrison, Alexander. / Creating a Colonial Shari'a for Russian Turkestan. Count Pahlen, the Hidaya, and Anglo-Muhammadan Law. Imperial Co-operation and Transfer, 1870-1930 Empires and Encounters. editor / Volker Barth ; Roland Cvetkovski. London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015. pp. 127-149
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