Imam Shamil

Imam Shamil
Imam Shamil
	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, Derbent Khanate
Died	4 February 1871 (aged 73); Medina, Habesh Eyalet, Ottoman Empire
Burial	Jannatul Baqi, Medina, in Hejaz, in today’s Saudi Arabia
Father	Dengau
Religion	Sunni Islam
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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;^[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 shaykh of the Naqshbandi Sufis.^[3]

^ Гапуров Ш. А. Тяжёлые страницы истории Чечни //Таллам. – 2015. – №. 1. – С. 24-29.
^ 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.
^ The Great Shamil, Imam of Daghestan and Chechnya, Shaykh of Naqshbandi tariqah

[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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