Study on Central Asian Shari`a Court Documents from Late 19 to Early 20 Centuries

本研究旨在解释在俄罗斯帝国统治时期，即从19世纪末到1920年社会主义政权在中亚建立期间，个人之间的争端是如何在沙里阿法院解决的。本文作者将当时中亚伊斯兰教法法院制作或提交的各种文件与俄罗斯行政当局要求穆斯林法官填写的记录伊斯兰教法法院裁决的登记册进行比较，得出以下结论：虽然登记册提供了复制特定案件争端解决的整个过程的可能性，他们往往忽略一些穆斯林法官认为没有必要写下来的细节。因此，我们不仅要考虑到登记册提供的信息，还要考虑到伊斯兰教法法院单独文件提供的信息，以便更完整地再现这一领域解决争端的整个过程。

This study aims to explain the way how disputes between individual persons were resolved in Central Asian shari`a courts during the period of Russian imperial domination, i.e. from the late 19th century to 1920 when the socialist regime was established there. By comparing the variety of documents produced in or submitted to Central Asian shari`a courts at that time with the registers for recording shari`a court rulings muslim judges were obliged to fill out by Russian administration, the author of this paper came to following conclusions: While the registers offer the possibility to reproduce entire process of dispute resolution on particular cases, they tend to omit some of the details that muslim judges did not feel it necessary to write down. For that reason, we have to take into account not only the information supplied by the registers but also that given by separate shari`a court documents to reproduce more completely the whole process of dispute resolution in that area.