Article: Al-Azhar and Shari`a Courts in twentieth-century Caucasus.(University of al-Azhar)

This article discusses the influence of Islamic legal training at the University of al-Azhar on Muslim institutions and practices that emerged from the so-called movement for `Islamic revival' in the contemporary Northern Caucasus. To date it remains almost completely unstudied either by lawyers or by social scientists. To begin filling up this lacuna I used numerous first hand material collected during my long-term archival and field research in the Northern Caucasus. In 1992-99 I interviewed undergraduate students of the University of al-Azhar, madrasa teachers and practising Islamic judges graduated from it, sat in courtrooms of Shari'a courts listening to inheritance, ...

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