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    Imam Shamil (Arabic: الشيخ شامل, romanized: al-Šaykh Šāmil; Avar: Шейх Шамил, romanized: Sheykh Shamil; Chechen: имам Шемал, romanized: imam Shemal; Kumyk:...
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  • The Imam Shamil Battalion (Arabic: كتيبة الإمام شامل, romanized: Katiba Al Imam Shamil, Russian: батальон имама Шамиля) was a militant Islamist organization...
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    Gazawat (Holy War) and the enforcement of Sharia. Two imams, Imam Ghazi Muhammad and Imam Shamil, attempted to initiate the Gazawat they called for by...
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    Hadji Murad (category Naibs of Imam Shamil)
    broke out between him and Imam Shamil, when Shamil proclaimed his son, Khazi Mohammed, as his successor. In a secret meeting, Shamil and his naibs decided...
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    The Imam Shamil Dagestan Volunteer Battalion is a volunteer combat unit operating under the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as a part of the International...
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    established by Ghazi Muhammad in 1829–1832, came under the rule of Imam Shamil from 1834 until his surrender in 1859. Sulak River Andi Koysu Avar Koysu...
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    Islamic Imams in the Mughal Empire Crimean Tatar imams teach the Quran. Lithograph by Carlo Bossoli Imam presiding over prayer, North Africa Imam Shamil, Caucasus...
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  • Benoyn Boyshar (category Naibs of Imam Shamil)
    Caucasian commander of Chechen origin. He was one of the naibs (deputies) of Imam Shamil. Baysangur participated in the Caucasian War of 1817–1861. Boyshar was...
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    (1817–1864) was the bloodiest phase of the broader Russo-Caucasian conflict. Imam Shamil, a Dagestani leader of Avar descent, became a central figure in the North...
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  • the new imām"). According to some sources, the choice for a new imam was between Hamzat Bek and Shamil, but Hamzat Bek was chosen since Shamil was still...
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  • Hormozgan Province, Iran Shamil, 3rd Imam of Dagestan (1797–1871), leader of resistance to Russian rule over the Caucasus Shamil Abbyasov (born 1957), Soviet...
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    mother was Asiya. According to Imam Shamil, his father named him "Asiyalav Muhammad" meaning "Muhammad of Asiya". Imam Shamil, when writing to him in Arabic...
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    Imam Shamil, the leader of the Caucasian resistance. The Russian forces, under the command of General Alexander Baryatinsky, aimed to defeat Shamil and...
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    the Russian Empire and the Caucasian Imamate led by Shamil. General Pavel Grabbe besieged Imam Shamil in the rock-fortress of Akhulgo. After 80 days the...
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    Bekhoev, who escaped, were executed. The Ingush sought the support of Imam Shamil, who decided to use this movement to combat the Russian offensive on...
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  • Karachay-Cherkess Republic. It was organized by the naib (deputy) of Imam Shamil, Muhammad Amin, alongside Magomet Efendi Hubiev, a spiritual leader of...
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    Chechen parents from the Belghatoy teip. He was named after Imam Shamil, the third imam of Chechnya and Dagestan and one of the leaders of anti-Russian...
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    Hadji Murad. Imam Shamil followed them. He led the mountaineers from 1834 until his capture by Dmitry Milyutin in 1859. In 1843, Shamil launched a sweeping...
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    language.[citation needed] Imam Shamil, resistance leader during the Caucasian War Ghazi Muhammad, Islamic scholar Hamzat Bek, imam Rasul Gamzatov, poet Hadji...
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    Najmuddin of Gotzo (category 20th-century imams)
    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...
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    naibs (viceroy), relatives, as well as a member of the close circle of Imam Shamil. He was born to Sultan Ahmad Khan of Elisu and his second wife Tuti Bike...
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    ابن جمال الدين الحسيني الغازيجوموكي الداغستاني) was the son-in-law of Imam Shamil, a participant in the Caucasian War and the author of the chronicles...
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    Sheikh Mansur (category Sunni imams)
    — Grigory Prozritelev, Шейх Мансур Description by the 3rd Imam of the Caucasian Imamate Imam Shamil: Sheikh Mansur had a courageous, fascinating appearance...
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  • Tashaw-Hadji (category 19th-century imams)
    imam Shamil. He was the imam of Chechnya since 1834. Upon the death of Gazi-Muhammad, he was one of the major candidates at the elections of the Imam...
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    by the Red Army. The Republic received support from Said Shamil, the grandson of Imam Shamil, and gained international recognition from various countries...
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    restoration of the tombs and mausoleums. Mohammad Hayya al-Sindhi, scholar Imam Shamil, Muslim leader and freedom fighter from the Caucasus Muhammad Sayyid...
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  • (2022-05-15). Imam Shamil. Book one. Litres. ISBN 978-5-04-115830-9. Esadze, Semyon (1909). The Assault on Gunib and the Captivity of Shamil: A Historical...
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    Talkhig of Shali (category Naibs of Imam Shamil)
    Talkhig of Shali was a 19th-century commander from the Northern Caucuses. A native of Shali and a representative of the taip Kurchaloy, he was a military...
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    the Russians. Its first leader was Ghazi Muhammad; after his death, Imam Shamil would eventually continue it. After the terrorist attacks on Paris in...
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  • nickname is Imam. The origin of this nickname Imam perchance be a nod to the venerable Northeast Caucasian resistance leader, Imam Shamil. Timur began...
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