Legal Pluralism Through the Prism of the Organization of Alternative Sharia Justice in the Post-Soviet North Caucasus: Results of Field Research in Dagestan, Ingushetia and Chechnya

Student: Rasul Abdulkhalikov

Faculty: Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences

Educational Programme: Modern Social Analysis (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2024

The study is devoted to the description of legal pluralism in the republics of the North Caucasus through the prism of the organization of Sharia justice. The text analyzes the main approaches to the definition of law and alternative legal systems in the social sciences and provides the results of a field study in the republics of the North Caucasus.

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