Najmuddin of Gotzo

Najmuddin of Gotzo
هوخسا نازمودن
ХӀоцоса Нажмудин
Title
Personal
Born1859 (1859)
DiedOctober 1925 (aged 65–66)
Cause of deathExecution by shooting
ReligionSunni Islam
RegionNorth Caucasus
DenominationSufism
SectNaqshbandi
Senior posting
Based in
Period in office1917–1920
PostMufti of the North Caucasus
Imam of Dagestan and Chechnya
In office
May 1918 – c. 1921
Disputed with Uzun-Hajji
(May 1919 – 30 March 1920)
MonarchSaid Shamil (from 1920)
Preceded byPosition re-established
Himself (1917)
Succeeded byPosition abolished
In office
17 August 1917 – 20 August 1917
Preceded byPosition re-established
Alibek-Hajji (1878)
Succeeded byPosition abolished
Military service
AllegianceMountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus
Battles/wars

Najmuddin of Gotzo[1][2][3][a][b] (1859 – October 1925) was a North Caucasian religious, military, and political leader who led multiple uprisings against the Bolsheviks during and after the Russian Civil War. A poet, alim, and teacher of Arabic prior to the Russian Revolution, Najmuddin first served as Mufti of the Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus.

Najmuddin was born into a family of landowning nobles who had defected from the Caucasian Imamate of Imam Shamil. Prior to the Russian Revolution, he was part of both the ulama and the Russian government, and he was briefly a bureaucrat for the Russian Provisional Government following the February Revolution. Najmuddin led a series of rebellions in both Dagestan and Chechnya against Russian authorities, seeking to establish an independent Islamic theocracy in the North Caucasus under his leadership. Following the failure of a 1924–1925 insurgency in Chechnya led by Najmuddin, he was captured by the Red Army in September 1925. He was executed by the Soviet government.

  1. ^ Bennigse, Alexandre (Winter–Spring 1979). "Muslim Religious Conservatism and Dissent in the USSR" (PDF). Studies in Comparative Religion. 13 (1–2): 4.
  2. ^ Bennigsen, Alexandre (August 1981). "The Soviet Union and Muslim Guerrilla Wars, 1920–1981: Lessons for Afghanistan" (PDF). A Rand Note: 1.
  3. ^ Grigoryev, Grigory (1 April 2023). "The choices and the legacy of Dagestani leaders of the Russian Civil war: heroic narratives and ethnic identity in modern Dagestan". British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies. Retrieved 6 September 2024.


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