ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the contribution of the first president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, Dzhokhar Dudaev, to the ideology of the North Caucasian jihadists. Dudaev was the political leader of the Chechen national movement of the early 1990s, a symbol of the Chechen struggle and an important figure in the post-Soviet political field. In addition to the fact that Dudaev was the head of Ichkeria republic and organized the military resistance to Moscow, he also made his special contribution to the ideology of the North Caucasian militants. Dzhokhar Dudaev was born in Chechnya in 1944. Almost immediately after his birth, his family together with the entire Chechen people was deported to Kazakhstan. In 1957, when the Chechens returned to their homeland, the family of Dudaev settled in the city of Grozny. On top of that, Dudaev announced that secular subjects as mathematics and physics would be soon taught on par with Islam.
