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Special Collections :: Country Profiles :: Dhū al-Qaʿda 1438 / August 2017
Nazow Tarakai
This Country Profile provides a basic overview of the legal history and institutional structures of the Russian Federation (Rossiyskaya Federatsiya), based on research produced by GlobaLex at NYU Law School and the Library of Congress. Under Russia’s Constitution, Islamic law (sharīʿa or fiqh) has no legal status.
Contemporary Primary Sources :: Constitutions :: 1435 / 2014
Russia, Posted by Bushra Hamid, 28 April 2017
Constitution for Russia in English, published with the permission of Constitute.
Historical Primary Sources :: 1181 / 1768
Michael Talbot, Posted by James Baldwin, 20 July 2017
This document is a beyānnāme, or declaration, sent by the Ottoman reʾīsül-kuttāb (chief scribe) to Britain's ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, justifying the Ottoman declaration of war on Russia by explaining Russia's violation of treaty obligations. The document gives insight into eighteenth-century Ottoman attitudes to international law and its relationship with Islamic law. Its use of the phrase naḳż-ı ʿahd (breaking the treaty), which has its origins in a specifically Qurʾānic context illustrates one way in which war was legitimized within the Ottoman Empire. Other phrases used in the beyānnāme demonstrate how Ottoman legal plurality functioned within a martial context.
Recāī Efendi, Edited by Michael Talbot, Translated by Michael Talbot, Posted by Sharon Tai, 22 January 2018
This document is a beyānnāme, or declaration, sent by Recāī Efendi, the Ottoman reʾīsül-kuttāb (chief scribe), to Britain's ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. It justifies the Ottoman declaration of war on Russia by explaining Russia's violation of treaty obligations, and gives insight into eighteenth-century Ottoman attitudes to international law and its relationship with Islamic law.