Muslim resistance to the tsar : Shamil and the conquest of Chechnia and Daghestan

Much has been written over the years about the Muslim 'Murid movement and its leader Shamil, who resisted the Tsarist Russian expansion into Chechan and Daghestan for more than a quarter of a century. This new study, based on painstaking research in multilingual archives, offers a fresh insight...

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Main Author: Gammer, M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London Portland, Or: F. Cass, c1994.
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300 # # |a xxiii, 452 p:   |b ill., maps;   |c 24 cm. 
504 # # |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 296-433) and index 
505 # 0 |a Pt. 1. The Setting. 1. The Theatre. 2. The People. 3. The Russians -- Pt. 2. The Background. 4. Ermolov. 5. The Naqshbandiyya-Khalidiyya -- Pt. 3. The First Two Imams. 6. The First Imam. 7. The Second Imam -- Pt. 4. Beginnings. 8. The Third Imam. 9. Tiliq. 10. Akhulgoh -- Pt. 5. 'The Rise of the Phoenix'. 11. Chechnia. 12. Daghestan. 13. Ghazi-Ghumuq and Ichkeri -- Pt. 6. To the Peak. 14. Avaristan. 15. Darghiyya. 16. Ghabarta -- Pt. 7. 'The System of the Axe'. 17. Lesser Chechnia. 18. Central Daghestan. 19. The South. 20. Greater Chechnia -- Pt. 8. 'The State of God'. 21. Shamil's State. 22. The Ruler and the Ruled. 23. The Imam and His Neighbours. 24. Shamil and the Powers -- Pt. 9. The End. 25. The Crimean War. 26. Ghunib. 
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