EAP957/1/28

Subject: المراسلات و الوثائق / Correspondence and documents.

Date of copy: different dates (second half of19th century – first third of 20th century).

Copyist: -

Place of copy: Daghestan

Notes: There are some follow documents andletters: Kayaev’s notes on the theory of Islamic law; fragment of an essay onIslamic law; some subcommentaries by Daghestani scholar Taiyib al-Kharakhi on“Minhaj at-Talibin” by an-Nawawi; a small essay by Ali Kayaev on the three-folddivorce procedure; al-Qudali's legalopinion on inalienable property (waqf); legal opinion (takrir) by Ali Kayaev onthe prohibition of drinking wine; Fragment of an essay on dogmatics where alsomentioned some Sufi shaykhs, as well as representatives of dogmatic schools(Mu'tazilites, Jabarites, etc.); the chain of succession (silsila), accordingto which above-mentioned Sayfulla-qadi Bashlarov received permission to readand study from the book "Qasida al-Burda" by al-Busiri; fragment of awork on Sufism by Abu-l-Lays al-Samarqandi; notes of Daghestan scholars on theArabic grammar; “مقيس المسائل على معرفة الفضائل” by مرتضى علي بن محمد العرادي

; a collection of different letters, includingmentions of imam Shamil, his representatives (na’ibs), as well as the battlesbetween imam Shamil’s warriors and the Russians; copies of letters from theperiod of the Caucasian war (1828-1859); poetry of some Daghestani Muslimscholars; Historical chronicle of the Arab conquests, including the spread ofIslam in Dagestan, the genealogy of some Daghestani rulers; brief informationabout the Golden Horde, the dynasty of its rulers and some events in Dagestanthat took place during the Mongol period; Ali Kayaev’s notes on law, dogmatics,hadith, when he was studying at “Al-Azhar” in Cairo etc.