Vladimir Bobrovnikov

Member of the editorial borders of the journals: Oriens (Vostok), State, Religion and Church in Russia and Worldwide (Gosudarstvo, religiia, tserkov' v Rossii i za rubezhom), Ethnographic Review (Etnograficheskoe obozrenie), Islamic Studies (Islamovedenie), Islamology, History, Archeology, and Enthography of the Caucasus (Istoriia, arkheologiia, etnografiia Kavkaza)

2022–2023, Russian Scientific Foundation (RNF), The Birth of National Muslim Histotiographies in the imperial Borderlands: Arabic and Turkic Narratives of "Peoples' Hiostory" in the Fiorst Half of the Twentieth Century, project 22-28-01869, group leader

2017–2018, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS - KNAW), individual grant (fellowship): Deconstructing Shari‘a Justice in the Russian North Caucasus, 1860s-1920s: Practices, Networks, Actors from the Post-Colonial Prospective,

2013–2016, Volkswagen Foundation, collective grant: Transformations of Sacred Spaces, Pilgrimages and Conceptions of Hybridity in the Post-Soviet Caucasus directed by Prof. Dr. Kevin Tuite, Dr. Florian Mühlfried (University of Jena), member of the research group,

2009–2012, Volkswagen Foundation, collective grant: The Politicisation of Islam in the Rural Communities of the Former USSR: An Interregional Comparative Study, 1950s–2000s directed by Dr. S. A. Dudoignon (EHESS, Paris) and Dr. C. Noack (NUI Maynooth, Dublin), member of the research group,

2007–2009, Central European University, ReSET Seminar on Methodology of History directed by Prof. Dr. Alexei Miller (Budapest, Moscow), member of the research group,

2002–2004, Volkswagen Foundation, collective grant: Islamic Education in the Soviet Union and the Commonwealth of Independent States directed by Prof. Dr. Raoul Motika (University of Hamburg), member of the research group,

1996–1998, Open Society Institute (Budapest), collective grant: Customary law Transformation in Collective Farms of the Caucasus, project director, group members: Dr. Irina Babich, Dr. Paula Garb, Dr. Larisa Gostieva,

1994–1996, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, individual grant: Muslim Land Tenure and Social Transformation in a Dagestani Collective Farm.

Vladimir Bobrovnikov teaches courses in global history of empires, Islam and post-colonial Oriental studies. Since 2018 he has been teaching mostly at Higher School of Economics, in St Petersburg and Moscow campuses. He has trained 3 candidates of sciences, several bachelors and masters in the ISAA of Moscow State University, RANEPA, HSE. Currently, he directs 3 more dissertations for the degree of Candidate of Historical Sciences. He teaches (and has taught in the past) general and special courses on the history, social anthropology and political science of Muslim communities, Oriental source studies, historiography of postcolonialism in a number of St. Petersburg, Moscow and international universities, including ISAA, FIPP RSUH, HSE, St. Petersburg State University, Stanford University (overseas department).

Vladimir BOBROVNIKOV (Ph.D. in History and Islamic Studies, Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies, 1994; B.A. in Medieval History, Moscow State University, 1987) is Professor of History and Leading Research Fellow at National Research University Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg where he has been teaching courses in global history of empires, Islam and post-colonial Oriental studies since 2018. He also conducts regular archival and field researches on Islam in modern Russia’s Caucasus from 1992 to date.

About

Bobrovnikov is historian of (ex-)colonial borderlands in tsarist and Soviet Russia who specializes in the history of rural non-Christian populations under the colonial and socialist modernization from the late eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. His major field of expertise is Islam in Russia, the Caucasus, as well as the history of Oriental Studies in Europe.

Bobrovnikov studied medieval and modern history as well as Islamic and Oriental Stud- ies at Moscow State University and Institute of Oriental Studies in Moscow. In December 1993 he defended the Ph.D. Dissertation in History and Oriental Studies under the title: Tradition and Modernity in the Mentality of the North African Peasants in the Modern Times (07.00.03, Insti- tute of Oriental Studies) (a monograph was written on its basis and published in Russian in 1998). From 2009 Bobrovnikov directs Caucasus chair at the Central Eurasia Research Center of the Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies. Before coming to HSE in St. Petersburg Bobrovnikov was a fellow at Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sci- ences (NIAS - KNAW) in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 2017-2018.

He is currently working on the project, which compares studies of Islamic and customary law, and Muslim legal practices in the borderlands the Russian empire (North Caucasus) with those of its European counterparts in the North Africa and Indonesia between the middle of the nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries. The project is entitled Deconstructing Shari‘a Justice in Russia's North Caucasus, 1860s-1920s. Practices, Networks, Actors from the Post- Colonial Perspective. This project questions the hegemonic frameworks of interpretation: the collision between Shari‘a, Islamic and non-Islamic customary law, and the preposition that Rus- sian colonial officers and Muslim legal practitioners were ignorant of what happened in other parts of the colonized world.

He is a member of the European Association for Middle Eastern Studies (EURAMES, London-based, from 2000), CASCADE Caucasus network (Paris-based, from 2016), Society of Russia's Orientologists (Moscow, from 2004), Free Historical Society (from 2014), CASCADE Caucasus network (from 2016), and NIAS Fellows Association (from 2018).

He serves on editorial boards of the academic journals: Ethnographic Review (Et- nograficheskoe obozrenie); Islamology; State, Religion, Church in Russia and Worldwide (Gosudarstvo, religiia, tserkov' v Rossii i za rubezhom). He also reviews regularly for the above mentioned journals as well as American Historical Review, Religion, State & Society.

Current Research Interests:

New imperial history, social and legal anthropology, Oriental studies and Orientalism. Arabic paleography and epigraphy. Transformation of Muslim village communities in the historical con- text of colonial and postcolonial (socialist) modernization, hybrid religious and legal practices, comparative analysis of (post)colonial transfers in the field of Oriental and especially Islamic studies in Russia's Caucasus, French North Africa and Dutch Indonesia. Comparative history.

Fellowships:

Institut français d’études anatoliennes (IFEA, Istanbul, Turkey, 1996), Arbeitskreis Moderne und Islam, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (WIKO, Berlin, Germany, 2001), Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (FMSH, EHESS, Paris, France, 2006, 2013, 2014), Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS – KNAW, 2017–2018, Amsterdam, Netherlands).

Knowledge of Languages:

French and English (fluent); Arabic, Avar, German, New Greek (speaking and reading abilities); Latin, Georgian, Dutch (reading with a dictionary)

Major Grants and Projects:

From 2020, A Red Golden Legend? Muslim Hagiographic Experiences in Post-Communist Nation States, directed by S. A. Dudoignon and M.-P. Hille (EHESS), coordinator of the Russian team, member of the research group

2017–2018, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS - KNAW), Deconstructing Shari‘a Justice in the Russian North Caucasus, 1860s-1920s: Practices, Networks, Actors from the Post-Colonial Prospective, individual project

2013–2016, Transformations of Sacred Spaces, Pilgrimages and Conceptions of Hybridity in the Post-Soviet Caucasus directed by Prof. Dr. Kevin Tuite, Dr. Florian Mühlfried (Volkswagen Foundation), member of the research group

2009–2012, The Politicisation of Islam in the Rural Communities of the Former USSR: An Inter- regional Comparative Study, 1950s–2000s directed by Dr. S. A. Dudoignon (EHESS, Paris) and Dr. C. Noack (NUI Maynooth, Dublin) (Volkswagen Foundation), member of the research group

2007–2009, Central European University, ReSET Seminar on Methodology of History directed by Alexei Miller (Kiev), member of the research group

2002–2004, Islamic Education in the Soviet Union and the Commonwealth of Independent States directed by Prof. Dr. Raoul Motika (University of Hamburg) (Volkswagen Foundation), member of the research group

from 1998 to date, contributor, from 1999 research consultant of the encyclopedic dictionary Is- lam in the Former Russian Empire directed and edited by professor Stanislav M. Prozorov, Insti- tute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg

1996–1998, Open Society Institute in Budapest, Customary law Transformation in Collective Farms of the Caucasus, project director

1994–1996, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Muslim Land Tenure and Social Transformation in a Dagestani Collective Farm, individual project

Courses Taught:

Actual Issues in Studying of History of Islam (in Russian, Bachelor’s programme, Dept. of History, HSE Campus in St. Petersburg);

Global and Comparative History of Empires (in English, Bachelor’s programme, Dept. of History, HSE Campus in St. Petersburg);

Anthropology of Religion (in English, Master’s programme, Dept. of History, HSE Campus in St. Petersburg);

Caucasus at the Crossroads of Empires (from 2021, in English, Master’s programme, Dept. of History, HSE Campus in St. Petersburg);

Issues of Historiography of Islam and Muslim Societies in Russia (in Russian, Master’s programme, Institute of Oriental and Classical Studies, HSE Campus in Moscow);

Muslims, Power and Society in Imperial and Soviet Russia (in Russian, Master’s programme, Institute of Oriental and Classical Studies, HSE Campus in Moscow);

Muslim Law, Legal Custom, and Their History in Russia (in Russian, Master’s programme, Institute of Oriental and Classical Studies, HSE Campus in Moscow);

Sufiam and Cult of Saints in Islam: History, Society and Politics (from 2021, in Russian, Master’s programme, Institute of Oriental and Classical Studies, HSE Campus in Moscow);

Theory and Methods of Contemporary Historical Knowledge (in Russian, Postgraduate course’s programme, Dept. of History, HSE Campus in St. Petersburg)

Major Publications (from more than 440 published works)

Monographs, Collected Papers, Catalogues, Publication of Sources

Modern World in the Eyes of Fellaheen (North Africa in the XIXth–XXth Centuries) (in Russian), Moscow: Institute of Oriental Studies, 1998, 158 pp.

Custom, Law and Violence Among the North Caucasus Muslims (in Russian), Moscow: Vostochnaia literatura, 2002, 368 pp. Rev. by M. Kemper in Ab imperio (2002, no. 4, pp. 461– 464, idem in Die Welt des Islams (2003, Vol. 43, No. 3, pp. 394–396); A.J.Frank in Kritika (2003, no. 1), idem in Cahiers du Monde russe (2004, vol. 45, nos. 3–4, pp. 747–749); W. Sun- derland in Kritika (2006, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 111–122).

S.N. Abashin, V.O. Bobrovnikov (Eds.), Zealots of Islam: The Cult of Saints and Sufism in Central Asia and the Caucasus (in Russian), Moscow: Vostochnaia literatura, 2003, 236 pp.

V.O. Bobrovnikov (Ed.), Custom and Law in Written Monuments from Dagestan, 5th – early 20th Centuries. Vol. I. Before the Russian Conquest. Vol. II. In Tsarist and Early Soviet Russia (in Russian), Мoscow: Marjani Publishers, 2009, 239 pp. + 262 pp.

I.L. Alexeyev, V.O. Bobrovnikov (Eds.), Tatar Shama'il: Word and Image. Catalogue (in Russian), Мoscow: Marjani Publishers, 2009, 112 pp.; 2nd ed. Мoscow: Marjani Publishers, 2013, 224 pp.; 3rd ed. Мoscow: Marjani Publishers, 2015, 208 pp.

A.K. Alikberov, V.O. Bobrovnikov (Eds.), Dagestan and the Muslim Orient (in Russian),

Мoscow: Marjani Publishers, 2010, 430 pp.

Voyage au pays des Avars (Daghestan, Russie, début du XXIe siècle) (in French), Paris: Cartouche, 2011, 189 pp.

Yu.Yu. Karpov, O.A. Sosnina, V.O. Bobrovnikov (Eds.), Caucasus Dictionary: Land and People. Catalogue of an Exibition (in Russian), Moscow: Tsaritsyno Publishers, 2012, 352 pp.

(With M. Filatova) Posters of the Soviet Orient, 1918–1940. Catalogue (in Russian),

Мoscow: Marjani Publishers, 2013, 318 pp.

V.O. Bobrovnikov, S. N. Abashin, et al. (Eds.), Half a Century in Turkestan. V.P. Nalivkin: Biography, Docu- ments, Works (in Russian), Мoscow: Marjani Publishers, 2015. 688 pp., ill.

V.O.  Bobrovnikov, Sayed J. Miri (Eds.),  Orientalism vs. Orientology (in Russian),

Мoscow: Sadra, 2016, 440 pp.

V.O. Bobrovnikov, V.A. Korenyako et al., Syntaslar. Funeral Steles of the Noghay Steppe. Catalogue (in Russian), Мoscow: Marjani Publishers, 2016, 672 pp., ill.

V.O. Bobrovnikov et al. (Eds.), Muslims in the New Imperial History (in Russian),

Мoscow: Sadra, 2017, 424 pp.

V.O. Bobrovnikov et al. Russia’s Islam: Essays in History and Culture (in Russian),

Мoscow: Institute for Oriental Studies, 2018, 456 pp. 2nd ed., 2019, 476 pp.

Textbooks and Syllabi

Social History and Anthropology of East Caucasus Muslims (Emergence of Regional Forms of Islam in Dagestan, Chechnya and Azerbaijan. A Syllabus (in Russian), Moscow: Insti- tute of African and Asian Studies, 2003, 23 pp.

V.O. Bobrovnikov, I.L. Babich (Eds.), North Caucasus in the Russian Empire (in Rus- sian), Moscow: NLO, 2007, 460 pp.

A.R. Syukiyaynen, V.O. Bobrovnikov et al, Islamic law. Master's Programme andlioteka Methodic Recommendations (in Russian), Moscow: HSE University, Faculty of Law, 2014, 406 pp.

V.O. Bobrovnikov, M.G. Shekhmagomedov, Sh. Sh. Shikhaliev, Muslim Law and Cus- tom in Russian Dagestan: Sources and Studies. A Reader (in Russian), St. Petersburg: St. Peters- burg State University, B.N. Yeltsin President's Library, 2017. 319 pp.

Selected Articles and Chapters

"The Islamic Revival and the National Question in Post-Soviet Daghestan", Religion, State and Society, 1996, vol. 24, no 2/3, pp. 233–238.

"Islamic studies in post-Soviet Russia: in search of new approaches", ISIM Newsletter.

December 1999, No. 4, p. 32.

"The Berbers, 19th – early 20th centuries AD", in D.M. Bondarenko and A.V. Korotaev (Eds.), Civilizational Models of Politogenesis, Moscow: Institute of African Studies, 2000, pp. 175–190. Rev. by E. Kavalski, Ab imperio (2004, no. 3, p. 614).

"Muslim Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Caucasus: Daghestani Case", Central Asia and the Caucasus, 2000, no. 1, pp. 93-104. Rev. by L.L. Adams, in S.A. Dudoignon, H. Komatsu (Eds.), Research Trends in Modern Central Eurasian Studies (18th-20th Centuries), Tokyo, 2003, pt. 1, pp. 95, 96.

"Mythologizing Sharia Courts in the post-Soviet North Caucasus", ISIM Newsletter.

2000, no. 5, p. 25.

"Post-Socialist Forms of Islam: North Caucasian Wahhabis" ISIM Newsletter. 2001, no.

7, p. 29.

"Al-Azhar and Shari‘a Courts in Twentieth-Century Caucasus", Middle Eastern Studies. 2001, vol. 37, no. 4, p. 1–24. Rev. by S.A. Dudoignon, in Central Eurasian Reader, Berlin: Klaus Schwarz, 2008, vol.1, pp. 372–374.

"Ittifaq Agreements in Daghestan in the Eighteenth – Nineteenth Centuries", Manu- scripta orientalia, 2002, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 21–27.

"Rural Muslim’s Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Caucasus: the Case of Daghestan", in

M. Gammer (Ed.), The Caspian Region. Vol. II. The Caucasus, L., N.Y.: Routledge, 2004, pp. 179–197.

"Verbrechen und Brauchtum zwishen islamischem und imperialem Recht: Zum Entzau- berung des işkîl im Daghestan des 17. bis 19. Jahrhunderts", in M.Kemper, M.Reinkowski (Eds.), Rechtspluralismus in der Islamischen Welt, Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2005,

S. 297–315. Rev. by A. Papas, Abstracta iranica. 2005, vol. 28 and by I. Schneider, Der Islam, 2009, vol. 85, issue 1, S. 250, 254, 255.

"Les lieux saints des clans routouls: pratiques religieuses hybrides chez les musulmans daghestanais", Revue d’études comparatives Est-Ouest. 2005, vol. 36, no. 4, p. 157–183. Rev. in Cahiers du monde russe, 2006, vol. 46, nos. 3, p. 157–183.

"Islam in the Russian Empire", in D. Lieven (Ed.), The Cambridge History of Russia. Vol. II. Imperial Russia, 1689–1917, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. 202–

223. Revs. in Annales. Histoire, sciences sociales. 2009, no. 3, p. 86; The Slavonic and East European Review. 2009, vol. 87, no 2, pp. 359–362.

"Religion und Kultur in Dagestan: von der sozialistischen zur islamischen Revolution?",

Kultura. Rußland-Kulturanalysen. 2006, no. 9, S. 14–20.

"Die Wahhabiten im Nordkaukasus: Ängste und Realitäten", Kultura. Rußland- Kulturanalysen. 2006, no. 9, S. 21–23.

"Abu Muslim in Islamic History and Mythology of the Northern Caucasus", in M.Gammer and D.J.Wasserstein (Eds.), Daghestan and the World of Islam, Helsinki: Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, 2006, p. 23–44. Rev. by M. Atkin, Central Asian Survey. 2008, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 95-109.

"‘Traditionalist’ Versus ‘Islamist’ Identities in a Daghestani Collective Farm", Central Asian Survey. 2006, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 287–302.

"The “Islamic Revival” in Daghestan Twenty Years Later", Central Asia and the Cauca- sus. 2007, No. 2 (44), pp. 142–152.

"The Islamic Revival in a Daghestani Kolkhoz: between local Traditions and external In- fluences", in Bayram Balci and Raoul Motika (Eds.), Religion et politique dans le Caucase post- soviétique, Paris: Maisonneuve & Larose, 2007. pp. 163–182. Revs: 1) Central Eurasian Studies Review. 2007, vol. 6, no. 1/2, p. 32; 2) F. Longuet-Marx, Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée. 2008, nos. 121–122, pp. 270–272.

"Bandits and the State: Designing a “Traditional” Culture of Violence in the Russian Caucasus", in Jane Burbank, Mark von Hagen, and Anatolyi Remnev (Eds.), Russian Empire: Space, People, Power, 1700–1930, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2007, p. 239–267. Reviews: 1) The Russian Review. 2008, vol. 67, pp. 159, 706; 2) J. Staples, Itinerario. 2009, vol. 32, issue 2, pp. 153–154; 3) J. Sahadeo, Kritika. 2010, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 381–409.

"Muslim Custom versus Socialist Law: Discourse on Shari‘a Courts in Postrevolutionary

Daghestan", in Moshe Gammer (Ed.), Islam and Sufism in Daghestan, Helsinki: Finnish Acad- emy of Science and Letters, 2009, pp. 101–129.

(with Amir Navruzov and Shamil Shikhaliev), "Islamic Education in Soviet and post- Soviet Daghestan", in Michael Kemper, Raoul Motika and Stefan Reichmuth (Eds.), Islamic Education in the Soviet Union and its Successor States, L., N.Y.: Routledge, 2010, pp. 107–167.

"Catalogue of Manuscripts and Old Printed Books in Arabic, Persian and Turkic Lan- guages from Kabardino-Balkaria", Manuscripta orientalia. 2010, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 13–64.

"Waqf Endowments in Daghestani Village Communities From the 1917 Revolution to the Collectivization", Die Welt des Islams. 2010, vol. 50, nrs. 3–4. pp. 477–502.

"The Contribution of Oriental Scholarship to the Soviet Anti-Islamic Discourse: From the Militant Godless to the Knowledge Society", in Michael Kemper and Stephan Conermann (Eds.), The Heritage of Soviet Oriental Studies, London, New York: Routledge: Central Asian Series, 2011, pp. 66–85.

"“Ordinary Wahhabism” vs. “Ordinary Sufism”? Filming Islam for Post-Soviet Muslim Young People", Religion, State and Society, 2011, Vol. 39, Nos. 2/3, pp. 281–301.

"The Crimean War in the Russian Caucasus: Ideology of Frontier and Discourse of Mus- lim Resistance" (in Russian), in J. W. Borejsza (Ed.), The Crimean War, 1853–1856. Colonial Skirmish or Rehearsal for World War? Empires, Nations, and Individuals, Warsaw: Wy- dawnictwo Neriton, Instytut Historii PAN, 2011, pp. 299–332.

"From Collective Farm to Islamic Museum? Deconstructing the Narrative of Highlander Traditions in Dagestan", in Florian Mühlfried and Sergei Sokolovsky (Eds.), Exploring the Edge of Empire. Socialist Era Anthropology in the Caucasus and Central Asia, Berlin, Münster, Wien, Zürich. London: LIT. Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia. Vol. 25. Ch. 6, 2012, pp. 99–117.

"Islamische Rechtspraxis in Dagestan im 20. Jahrhundert", in Raoul Motika, Michael Kemper, Anke von Kügelgen (Eds.), Repression, Anpassung, Neuorientierung: Studien zum Is- lam in der Sowjetunion und dem postsowjetischen Raum, Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2013. S. 103– 139.

"Withering Heights. The Re-Islamization of a Kolkhoz Village in Dagestan: a Micro- History", in Stéphane A. Dudoignon, Christian Noack (Eds.), Allah’s Kolkhozes. Migration, De- Stalinisation, Privatisation, and the New Muslim Congregations in the Soviet Realm (1950s– 2000s) (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen. Bd. 314), Berlin: Klaus Schwarz, 2014, pp. 367–397.

"We Have Done Away with the Tsars of this World, Now Let Us Attack the Heavenly Ones”: Religious Intolerance in the Soviet Scholarship of Islam", in Edmund Dmitrów, Jerzy Eisler, Mirosław Filipowicz, Mariusz Wołos, Grzegorz P. Bąbiak (Eds.), Wiek  nienawiści: Księga dedykowana Prof. Jerzemu W. Borejszy [A Century of Hate. Collected papers in Honor of Professor Jerzy W. Borejsza], Warsaw: Instytut Historii Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Instytut Pamięci Narodowej, Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu, 2014, pp. 35–52.

"Crime or Custom between Islamic and Imperial Laws: Demystifying ishkil in 17th - 19th Centuries Dagestan", in M.B. Piotrovskii, A.K. Alikberov (Eds.), Ars Islamica, Moscow: Vostochnaia literatura, 2016, pp. 620–645.

"The Islamic Discourse of Visual Propaganda in the Soviet East Between the Two World

Wars (1918–1940)", in Russian Perspectives on Islam, http://chnmdev.gmu.edu/rpi/exhibits/show/one/introduction,      10.09.2016.

"Shari‘a vs. ‘Adat in Post-Imperial Lawmaking: Political Discourse on Shari‘a Courts in Dagestan, 1917-1927", Annals of Japan Association for Middle Eastern Studies (AJAMES), 2016, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 33–67.

"« Islamic Revival» in Dagestan: 25 Year Later" (in Russian), Islamology, 2017, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 106–121.

"Islamic Discourse of Visual Propaganda in the Interwar Soviet Orient, 1918–1940",

Islamology, 2017, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 53–73.

"Applied Oriental Studies of Russiaʾs Own Islam: From Orthodox Missionaries to Mili- tant Godless and Wahhabis", Insight Turkey, 2018, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 249–270.

"Inventing a New Legal Tradition: The Discourse of “Traditional Islam” in Post-Communist Dagestan", in Renat Bekkin (Ed.), The Concept of Traditional Islam in Modern Islamic Discourse in Russia, Saraevo: Center for Advanced Studies, 2019, pp. 233–254.

(with Artemy M. Kalinovsky), “Fazliddin Muhammadiev’s Journey to the “Other World”: The History of a Cold War Ḥajjnāma,” Die Welt des Islams, 2021, vol. 61, pp. 1–32.

Encyclopedic entries

"Abrek", G. Krämer, D. Matringe, J. Nawas and E. Rowson (Eds.), Encyclopaedy of Is- lam, 3rd ed. Pt. 1. Leiden: Brill, 2008, pp. 29–30.

(with Frank H. Stewart, M. Kemper, P. Sartori et al.), “Customary Law,” in Kate Fleet, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas and Everett Rowson (Eds.), Leiden: Brill, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_26519, First published online: 2021

Historiography, Reviews

Rev. on: Detmering Christian, “Reassessing Chechen and Ingush (Vainakh) Clan Struc- tures ibn the 19th Century”, Central Asian Survey 24/4 (2005): 469–489, in Central Eurasian Reader. A Biennial Journal of Critical Bibliography and Epistemology of Central Eurasian Stud- ies, Berlin: Klaus Schwarz, 2008, vol. 1, p. 197 (No. 231).

"What Happened to the North Caucasus in the Russian Empire: An Editor's Afterward Several Years Later" (in Russian), Ab imperio, 2008, no. 4, pp. 501–519.

"Why Are We Marginal? Notes on the Margins of the Russian Translation of Orientalism

by Edward Said" (in Russian), Ab imperio, 2008, no. 2, pp. 325–344.

"A New Book of Vera Tolz. An Orientologists's Comment" (in Russian), Ab imperio, 2011, no. 3, pp. 393–402.

"Anatoliy Remnev as a Historian of the Imperial Russia's Orient", (in Russian), Ab impe- rio, 2012, no. 1, pp. 151–159.

"Social Anthropologists Write about Russia's Orient. Yu.Yu. Karpov, Vzgliad na gortsev. Vzgliad s gor, St. Petersburg: Peterburgskoe vostokovedenie, 2007. 656 pp.; B. Grant, The Cap- tive and the Gift: Cultural Histories of Sovereignty in Russia and the Caucasus, Ithaca, London: Cornell University Press, 2009. XVIII, 188 p., Oriens, 2012, no. 3, pp. 175–180.

Rev. on: V. Tolz. Russia's Own Orient: The Politics of Identity and Oriental Studies in the  Late  Imperial  and  Early  Soviet  Russia,  Oxford:  Oxford  Univ.  Press,  2011;  V.  Tol'z,

«Sobstvennyi Vostok Rossii»: Politika identichnosti i vostokovedenie v pozdneimperskii i ran- nesovetskii period, Moscow: NLO, 2013, (in Russian), Pax islamica, 2013, no. 2, pp. 217–224.

"«Orient is a Delicate Matter». (Post)imperial Narratives and Practices in a Central Asian

Kishlak" (in Russian), Ab imperio, 2016, no. 1, pp. 389–407.

"Muslims in Imperial Russia. Featured Review on: Elena I. Campbell. The Muslim Ques- tion and Russian Imperial Governance. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015; Agnès Nilüfer Kefeli. Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia: Conversion, Apostasy, and Literacy. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2014; Mustafa Tuna. Imperial Russia’s Muslims: Islam, Empire, and European Modernity, 1788–1914. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015", American Historical Review, 2017, vol. 122, no. 1, pp. 127–131.

Institute for Oriental Studies, Moscow, Russia