Custom and Law in Dagestani Written Monuments of the 5th— early 20th Centuries. Vol. 1, ed. By Vladimir О. Bobrovnikov. Мoscow: Mardjani Publishing House, 2009

The first volume of the two-volume collected edition of documents of customary law from the 5-20^th century’s North-Eastern Caucasus, translated from Arabic and a number of Turkic and Caucasian languages by a team of historians and ethnographers from Moscow and Makhachkala.

There are major contracts and normative acts derived from chronicles, historical records and epigraphical material from the early Middle Ages to the period of the annexation of North-Eastern Caucasus by the Russian Empire. Translations are supplied with commentaries and introduced by a number of theoretical articles focused on the history of customary law in the Caucasus. The book contains a facsimile reproduction of the most important textual sources and maps as well as an annotated bibliography on Dagestani adat.

Custom and Law in Dagestani Written Monuments of the 5^th— early 20^th Centuries. Vol. 1, ed. By Vladimir О. Bobrovnikov. Мoscow: Mardjani Publishing House, 2009, ISBN 978-5-903715-02-2