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Imam Shamil

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Imam Shamil's Biography

Imam Shamil (Azerbaijani: Şeyx Şamil also spelled as Shamyl, Schamil, or Schamyl; Russian: Имам Шамиль; 1797 – March 1871) was an Avar political and religious leader of the Muslim tribes of the Northern Caucasus. He was a leader of anti-Russian resistance in the Caucasian War and was the third Imam of the Caucasian Imamate (1834-1859).

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  • Boston attack: The Dagestan connection

    News Source: CNN | 1 month ago
    Rajan Menon is a political science professor at City University of New York and a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council . He has written about the North Caucasus for publications around the world. (CNN) -- Dagestan has hit the headlines, but this

  • The Ideology Behind the Boston Marathon Bombing

    News Source: HNN | 1 month ago
    Furnish holds a PhD in Islamic, World and African History (Ohio State), is a U.S. Army veteran and recovering college professor, and currently makes a living as an author, lecturer and consultant to the U.S. military. His website is www.mahdiwatch.

  • Muslim Ghandist order or smuggler mafia? The life of the North Caucasus' ...

    News Source: Russia Today | 8 months ago
    The leader of Ingushetia says the Sunday suicide bombing in the North Caucasian republic, which killed eight people and wounded 15, was organized by Russia's top terrorist fugitive Doku Umarov...The life of the North Caucasus' most secretive
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  • Boston Marathon Attacks, Chechnya and Oil – the Hidden U.S. ....

    Blog Source: oilprice.com | 29 days ago
    ... Russian troops entered the region to assert control, resulting in a long-drawn out and bitter campaign marked by numerous atrocities until Imam Shamil surrendered to the Russians in 1859, causing many Chechen Muslims to emigrate to ...

  • Chechnya in the shadow of terror : Postnoon

    Blog Source: postnoon.com | 29 days ago
    ... unable to fully achieve this because in the course of the war he was wounded and captured, and for unknown reasons, died. Its banner was again picked up by the Avar Imam Shamil, who fought against the Russians from 1834 until 1859.

  • A Primer on Chechnya from Thomas Goltz | World Affairs ...

    Blog Source: www.worldaffairsjournal.org | 29 days ago
    After the resistance collapsed with the capture of Imam Shamil (an event somewhat akin to the surrender of Souix/Lakota Chief Sitting Bull), many of those fearless warriors brought their skills into exile in the Ottoman Empire, where they were ...
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