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Islamic legal culture in Uzbekistan

Rustamjon Urinboyeva Department of Sociology of Law, Faculty of Social Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden;b Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Tashkent State University of Economics, Tashkent, UzbekistanCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 402-429 | Received 01 May 2023, Accepted 08 Oct 2023, Published online: 13 Oct 2023

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