Paolo Sartori
@PaoloSa86346296
Senior Research Associate @oeaw | Editor of JESHO and JCAH | Chairman of the Committee for the Study of Islam in Central Eurasia |
Complimentary copies arrived! Finally, 'A Soviet Sultanate' is a thing of this world!

Escaping from Charjoy/Çärjew, Jumaqul runs away from the Bukharan emir and his henchmen, to embrace Russian assimilation. On conversion as escapism in early-20th-century Central Asia oeaw.ac.at/sice/sice-blog… #islam #russia #colonization

On a lark, I trained (rather fine-tuned) my first model this week: Persian meter identification. It needs more data, but it works! All I gave it so far is the ~7k ghazals of Ṣāʾib, a badly skewed sample. Still, it's clear this is a solved problem.
My fourth and last essay for the Harvard Islamic Law Blog on Sharia in the Soviet Union islamiclaw.blog/2025/07/24/and… #islam #sharia #ussr #dagestan #caucasus

Read Dr. Paolo Sartori's latest essay on the @ISLAMICLAWblog titled "Qāḍī by Necessity: Muḥammad al-Khartikunī against the “Wahhabis” in 1980s Dagestan" today! buff.ly/UltHuO9
Another essay about sharia and qadis in the USSR in the Harvard Islamic Law Blog by yours truly. islamiclaw.blog/.../qa%e1%b8%8… #islam #russia #caucasus #sharia #dagestan

La bellezza dei manifesti delle cooperative dell’ex manicomio triestino. La prima, nel 1972, fu la Cooperativa Lavoratori Uniti, intitolata a Franco Basaglia. [Franco Rotelli, L'istituzione inventata. Almanacco Trieste 1971-2010]
Read Dr. Paolo Sartori's recent essay on the blog titled "Apocalypse in the Tian Shan: Or the Story of a Wasted Fatwā" today! buff.ly/JPJfhFp
Islamic law enthusiasts around the world: here's my new essay for the Harvard Islamic Law Blog! Apocalypse in the Tian Shan: Or the Story of a Wasted Fatwā islamiclaw.blog/2025/07/10/apo… #centralasia #islam #USSR #soviet #fatwas #sharia

Central Asian History fans! The new fascicle of the Journal of Central Asian History is out!!! #CentralAsia #history brill.com/view/journals/…
We are excited to welcome the @ISLAMICLAWblog's July Guest Blogger, Dr. Paolo Sartori! buff.ly/X95BZXs
This is the initial installment in a series of four essays devoted to the history of Islamic law in the USSR islamiclaw.blog/2025/07/03/sav…

Marking the beginning of what hopefully will be a long-standing cooperation between yours truly and Dr. Shamil Shikhaliev... cambridge.org/core/journals/…
Fancy coming to Vienna and working with me on a project of your own choice for 6 months? The Austrian Academy of Sciences has just opened a call for application for incoming fellowships! stipendien.oeaw.ac.at/en/stipendien/…
"Muslim" is an English spelling convention brought to you by pedantic Orientalists and their obsession with transliteration. You're welcome.
This is an excellent essay on "decolonizing knowledge." Although initially well intentioned, the idea of "de-colonizing scholarship" has been very damaging to scholarship and scholarly collaboration. On the one hand, the decolonizers ignore productive scholarly collaborations +
Only extractivist and exploitative? Of things forgotten about the historical craft in Central Eurasia prior to 2022 ... oeaw.ac.at/sice/sice-blog…
В Узбекистане запустят фонд для поддержки малого и среднего бизнеса по принципам шариата. Как это повлияет на предприятия? gazeta.uz/ru/2025/06/13/…
Only extractivist and exploitative? Of things forgotten about the historical craft in Central Eurasia prior to 2022 ... oeaw.ac.at/sice/sice-blog…
One of the great monuments of human language history: the 18th century Qianlong Pentaglot Dictionary 御製五體清文鑑 Yuzhi Wuti Qing Wenjian. Its lemmata are recorded in 5 languages: Manchu, Tibetan, Mongolian, Uighur & Chinese. This is the first printed edition, Peking 1957. 1/
Sharīʿa in the Russian Empire The Reach and Limits of Islamic Law in Central Eurasia, 1550-1917 eds. Paolo Sartori, Danielle Ross. Edinburgh Univ Pr 2021 #OpenAccess Front Matter & Introduction. The Reach and Limits of Sharīʿa in the Russian Empire PDF 🎯 api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400…