Book/Printed Material Seeking justice at the court of the khans of Khiva (19th-early 20th centuries)

Title

• Seeking justice at the court of the khans of Khiva (19th-early 20th centuries)

Summary

• "This book aims to shed light on the juridical field of the Khanate of Khiva at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. The Khanate of Khiva is the term employed in Western historiography to denote the political formation that was put in place by the Qonghrats. The latter was a dynasty of Uzbek origin that ruled roughly between the last quarter of the 18th century and 1920. It ruled over the region known as Khorezm (Ar. Khwārazm), one of the biggest oases of Central Asia, traversed by the Amu Darya and nestled within the territory of what is today Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan. The main objective of this work is to show that prior to Sovietization the dispensation of justice in Khorezm depended mostly on a group of officials who represented the dynasty in power, but who lacked any specialised legal training. It is important to reflect on this particular aspect of the legal system developed by the Muslim principality that we refer to as the Khanate of Khiva, for conventional wisdom says that the practice of law in pre-modern Muslim societies was usually the business of the ulamā, i.e., the scholars of Islam"-- Provided by publisher.

Names

• Sartori, Paolo, 1975- author
• Abdurasulov, Ulfatbek, 1977- author

Created / Published

• Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020.

Headings

• -  Justice, Administration of--Khivinskoe khanstvo--History--19th century--Sources
• -  Justice, Administration of--Khivinskoe khanstvo--History--20th century--Sources
• -  Justice, Administration of--Uzbekistan--History--19th century--Sources
• -  Justice, Administration of--Uzbekistan--History--20th century--Sources

Notes

• -  Includes bibliographical references and index.
• -  Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

Medium

• 1 online resource

Call Number/Physical Location

• KLW12.9

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2020007966

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2020007966

Rights Advisory

• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode External

Access Advisory

• Unrestricted online access

Online Format

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• pdf

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2020007966

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