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Abstract
The article discusses the role and place of a Muslim woman in Turkestan based on the audit of Senator K.K.Palen, conducted in 1908-1909. She studied and did not collect the Muslim congress to discuss the code of Muslim laws, namely: representatives of the local Muslim clergy, theologians and jurists.
The article discusses the relationship to the family, to the woman and a comparison of the Muslim and European family from the point of view of the European KK Palen and other representatives of the European intelligentsia. It is noted that Senator KK.Palen was the first Tsarist official who decided to hold a Muslim congress and as a result prepared a special report entitled “Sharia articles translated into Russian about the legal relations of the Muslim population of the Turkestan Territory, extracted from the indigenous, Arabic presentation, on issues proposed by Senator Count KK.Palen to discuss the commission of scientists natives convened from three regions of the region in Tashkent”. Based on the results of the KK.Palen audit reports, an analysis of Islamic law - Sharia and Adat (rules of nomadic population) was carried out. Considered the rights of Muslim women under Muslim law - Sharia.