ABSTRACT
First published in 2003. Much has been written about the Muslim Murid movement and its leader Shamil, who resisted the Tsarist Russian expansion into Chechan and Daghestan for more than quarter of a century. This study, based on research in multilingual archives, offers a fresh insight into this controversial subject.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|18 pages
The Setting
part 2|20 pages
The Background
part 3|19 pages
The First Two ImāMs
part 4|43 pages
Beginnings
part 5|26 pages
‘The Rise of the Phoenix'
part 6|35 pages
To the Peak
part 7|49 pages
‘The System of the Axe'
part 8|41 pages
‘The State of God'
part 9|26 pages
The End