[Discussion] PUBL.- Michael Kemper, Jihad in Daghestan (in German)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

From: Michael Kemper <kempus@gmx.net>

PUBL.- Michael Kemper, Jihad in Daghestan (in German)

Publication:

Michael Kemper, Herrschaft, Recht und Islam in Daghestan. Von den Khanate=
n
und Gemeindebuenden zum gihad-Staat
Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag 2005 (Caucasian Studies, vol. 7), 472 pp., 2=20
maps.
ca. 89 Euro

Kemper=B4s work discusses the Islamic jihad of the North Caucasian=20
mountaineers
against the Russian colonial encroachment in the context of the longstand=
ing
tradition of Islamic legal scholarship and the history of Islamic rule=20
in the
region itself. Local sources in the Arabic language reveal that the=20
jihad state
of Imam Shamil (r. 1834-59) took its main legitimation not from=20
Naqshbandiyya
Sufism, as has often been suggested in recent research, but from debates=20
on the
necessity to substitute local customary law (=B4adat) by Islamic law=20
(shari=B4a).
These debates go back at least to the 18th century, and they were linked =
to
Islamisation legends of the North Caucasian communities and=20
principalities from
even earlier centuries. Also, the political and military networks of the=20
jihad
time were not based on Sufis but on powerful representatives of the=20
communities
and of the noble families, as well as on specialists of Islamic law=20
(qadis and
muftis).

The work is based on a wide array of Arabic sources from the North Caucas=
us
(adat collections, fatwas, chronicles, treatises, silsilas,=20
correspondencies) as
well as on military documentation and scholarly works in the Russian=20
language.

Contents:

Einleitung

I.:  Die Etablierung islamisch legitimierter Herrschaft in Daghestan (7.-=
15.
      Jh.)
II.: Zwischen Osmanischem Reich, Iran und Russland (17.-Mitte 18. Jh.)
III: Russlands Vordringen und der Beginn des islamischen Widerstands
IV:  Der Scharia-orientierte jihad aus den Dorfgemeinschaften
V.:  Der Dritte Imam Shamil (1834-59) und seine Statthalter
VI:  Adat-Recht, Scharia und Imamat

Fazit: Die zehn Befunde dieser Arbeit
Bibliographie, Verzeichnis der Adat-Dokumente, Index, Karten

Michael Kemper is Assistant Professor for Central Eurasian History at St.
Lawrence University, Canton NY, USA (MKemper@stlawu.edu)

The book can be ordered via the publisher's web site at:

<http://www.reichert-verlag.de/>





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