Imam Shamil | |
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![]() Shamil in 1859 | |
Imam of Chechnya and Dagestan | |
Reign | 1834–1859 |
Predecessor | Hamzat Bek |
Successor | Overthrown by the Russian Empire |
Born | 26 June 1797 Gimry, Dagestan, Avar Nutsaldom |
Died | 4 February 1871 Medina, Habesh Eyalet, Ottoman Empire | (aged 73)
Burial | Jannatul Baqi, Medina |
Father | Dengau |
Religion | Sunni Islam |
Signature | ![]() |
Imam Shamil (Arabic: الشيخ شامل, romanized: al-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]
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