Imam Shamil

Imam Shamil
Shamil in 1859
Imam of Chechnya and Dagestan
Reign1834–1859
PredecessorHamzat Bek
SuccessorOverthrown by the Russian Empire
Born26 June 1797
Gimry, Dagestan, Avar Nutsaldom
Died4 February 1871(1871-02-04) (aged 73)
Medina, Habesh Eyalet, Ottoman Empire
Burial
FatherDengau
ReligionSunni Islam
SignatureImam Shamil's signature

Imam Shamil (Arabic: الشيخ شامل, romanizedal-Šaykh Šāmil; Avar: Шейх Шамил, romanized: Sheykh Shamil; Chechen: имам Шемал, romanized: imam Shemal;[1] Kumyk: Шамил, romanized: Shamil; Russian: Имам Шамиль; 26 June 1797 – 4 February 1871) was the political, military, and spiritual leader of North Caucasian resistance to Imperial Russia in the 1800s,[2] the third Imam of the Caucasian Imamate (1840–1859), and a Sunni Muslim sheikh of the Naqshbandi Sufis.[3]

  1. ^ Гапуров Ш. А. Тяжёлые страницы истории Чечни //Таллам. – 2015. – №. 1. – С. 24-29.
  2. ^ Nicholas V. Riasanovsky (1984). "Chapter 29: The Reign of Alexander II, 1855-81". A History of Russia (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 389. ISBN 978-0-19-503361-8.
  3. ^ The Great Shamil, Imam of Daghestan and Chechnya, Shaykh of Naqshbandi tariqah

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