Imam Shamil ( Avar: Шейх Шамил, romanized: Şeyx Şamil; Arabic: الشيخ شامل ; Russian: Имам Шамиль; 26 June 1797 – 4 February 1871) was the political, military, and spiritual leader of Caucasian resistance to Imperial Russia in the 1800s, the third Imam of the Caucasian Imamate (1840–1859), and a Sunni Muslim Shaykh of the Naqshbandi Sufi Tariqa.
Who was Imam Shamil al-Daghestani Al-Naqshbandi?
The people of the Caucuses region are currently commemorating the life of Imam Shamil Al-Daghestani al-Naqshbandi who died on February 4, 1871. But who exactly was the legendary Muslim resistance fighter? Imam Shamil was one of the great Muslim heroes of the 19th century.
What happened to Shuanet Shamil?
Captured in a raid in 1840, she married Shamil six years later. She converted to Islam as a teenager and adopted the name “Shuanet”. Shuanet remained loyal to Shamil even after his capture and exile to Russia. After the death of Shamil (1871) she moved to the Ottoman Empire, where the sultan assigned her a pension.
Who was said Said Shamil?
Said Shamil, a grandson of Imam Shamil, became one of the founders of the Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus, which survived between 1917 and 1920 and later, in 1924, he established the “Committee of Independence of the Caucasus” in Germany.
