The article analyzes the legal framework for the Ismaili community in the Western Pamirs in the late nineteenth - early twentieth centuries. Despite the fact that the community was subject to the laws of the country of residence, the community formed its own system of norms and rules of conduct. The authors highlight the main sources of law applied, as well as their relationship in various legal branches - administrative, criminal, and civil law. The article provides a detailed review of the issues related to land relations, ownership and use of different types of land, as well as water management problems. It considers the main types and forms of contracts common in the community, and analyzes the features of taxation depending on the change of subordination of the territories inhabited by Ismailis - to Afghanistan, Emirate of Bukhara, and the Russian Empire. The authors discuss the fundamentals of family law, the key questions of marriage and divorce and characteristics of dowry. This paper describes in the