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Islamic Dissent in a Dagestani Kolkhoz: a Research Note

In: Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient
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Shamil Shikhaliev Postdoctoral researcher, Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences Vienna Austria

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Paolo Sartori Distinguished researcher, Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences Vienna Austria

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Abstract

The historiography of collectivization in the Muslim-majority regions of the USSR has grown considerably over the last decades and a scholarly consensus has coalesced around the idea that collective farms across the Caucasus and Central Asia served as a flexible infrastructure to preserve the integrity of Islamic institutions such as shrines and mosques, especially when said institutions existed and operated unofficially. With the preponderant weight of scholarly attention focused upon practices of adjustment to social changes, however, manifestations of dissent within the rural environment of kolkhozes have been largely neglected so far, even though in certain regions of the USSR collectivization was met by peasant resistance. In this research note we would like to address this shortcoming by offering a summary and textual edition of an original work of Islamic jurisprudence which disputes Soviet state ownership of the agricultural produce. The work in question is titled Risāla fī ‘l-‘ushr and was crafted in Arabic by Muḥammad b. Dāwud Ḥājjī al-Aqūshī (1895–1947) in Dagestan in the late 1940s.

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