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Seeking Justice at the Court of the Khans of Khiva - (19th - early 20th Centuries) (Hardcover)
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Seeking Justice at the Court of the Khans of Khiva - (19th - early 20th Centuries) (Hardcover)
Series: Brill's Inner Asian Library, 38
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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. Khwarazm), 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 'ulama', i.e., the scholars of Islam.
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