Husein al-Kargali (d. 1857): Tatar hadith scholar from Bukhara

Abstract

The article is devoted to the description of a manuscript by a Tatar theologian of the 19th century Husein al-Kargali “Maakid al-marjan min masanid an-Nu‘man” (Leashes of pearls from musnads of the an-Nu‘man). This treatise is a set of abridgements of hadith collections (musnads) by an eponym of a theological and legal school traditional to Turkic-Muslim peoples imam Abu-Hanifa “Jami' masanid”. This composition was compiled by a medieval Baghdad scholar Muhammad al-Khavarizmi (1197-1257). The paper compares the shortened version with the original and describes the history of the book appearance in Bukhara and presents a short biography of al-Kargali. On the basis of these facts, the article reveals close spiritual ties of Muslims of the Volga-Ural region, Central Asia and of the Ottoman Empire, united by Hanafi theological tradition. It also discloses the important role of Bukhara emir Nasrallah Bahadur Khan (1827-1860) in these processes.