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Middle Eastern Manuscripts Online 5:
The Karabudakhkent Mosque Collection (Dagestan)

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Brill Academic Publishers

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109257

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This collection of manuscripts, printed books, and records is a must-have for historians specialising in Islamic writing traditions and for scholars interested in the development of Islamic law in the 20th century. Representing one of the largest private manuscript collections today available in Dagestan, this manuscript library covers an impressive chronological range, i.e., from the 14th to the middle of the 20th century. The collection is now hosted at the mosque of the village of Karabudakhkent in the Republic of Dagestan (Russian Federation) and it includes ca. 100 codices, 100 printed books, and more than 300 documentary items crafted in Arabic and Turkic languages.

As a whole, the present collection stands out for two reasons. First, it offers to date one of the most vivid reflections of the functioning of Islamic law within the context of the Soviet South. More specifically, its documentary section shows how Dagestani scholars continued to deliver fatwas on specific points of Islamic law (shari’a) thereby contributing to the development of juristic debates on legal hermeneutics. Secondly, the Karabudakhkent collection is especially valuable for the Islamic historiography of the North Caucasus, for it sheds light on the ways in which local literati made sense of the Bolshevik revolution and the ensuing Civil War (1917-1920), the period of collectivization (1928-1940) and indigenization (korenizatsiya) in Dagestan.

Finally, this collection is particularly noteworthy for the history of Islamic knowledge production in the Caucasus across the Russian colonial and Soviet period. Most notably, by connecting the dots between codices, letters, and official records, we can appreciate the density of intellectual interactions among Muslim scholars who were often relegated to the margins of the Soviet society on account of their unwillingness to affiliate with Party organs and state authorities.