Imam Shamil, Imam · Imam of the Caucasus

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Imam Shamilالإمام شامل

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The imam of Dagestan and Chechnya who resisted the Russian Empire for twenty-five years.

A Naqshbandi scholar, he united the mountain peoples under Islamic law and fought Russian armies in the Caucasus forests. He surrendered at Gunib in 1859. Later allowed to make Hajj, he died in Madinah in 1871 and is buried in al-Baqi.

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