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	Imam Shamil - Biocrawler
		Imam Shamil (1797 - March 1871) was a Daghestani Avar political and religious leader of the Muslims of the Northern Caucasus.
		Imam Shamil was born in 1797 in the small village of Gimry which is in current-day Daghestan.
		Shamil continues to be revered in the Caucasus for his resistance to the Russians, and is held up as a role-model by those leading the current fight against Russian control of the region.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Imam_Shamil (492 words)

	Imam Shamil
		Imam Shamil was born around 1797 in the town of Gimry which is in current-day Daghestan.
		Indeed, Shamil made effective use of guerilla warfare tactics and the resistance was only ended when the Russians deployed half a million troops and reduced the forces of Shamil down to the hundreds.
		Shamil continues to be revered in the Caucasus for his resitance to the Russians, and is held up as a role-model by those leading the current fight against Russian control of the region.
	www.teachtime.com /en/wikipedia/i/im/imam_shamil.html (457 words)

	Imam Shamil:
		Imam Shamil, also spelled as Shamyl, Schamil, or Schamyl (1797 – March 1871) was an Avar political and religious leader of the Muslim tribes of the Northern Caucasus.
		Imam Shamil was born in 1797 in the small village of Gimry which is in current-day Dagestan, Russia.
		Shamil was born at a time when the Russian Empire was expanding into the territories of the Ottoman Empire and Persia (see Russo-Persian War (1804-1813) and Russo-Turkish War).
	www.winelib.com /wiki/Imam_Shamil (721 words)

	Imam Shamil
		Imam Shamil (1797 - March 1871) was an Avar political and religious leader of the Muslim tribes of the Northern Caucasus.
		Imam Shamil was born in 1797 in the small village of Gimry which is in current-day Dagestan.
		Shamil was born at a time when the Russian Empire was expanding into the territories of the Ottoman Empire and Persia (see Russo-Persian War, 1804-13 and Russo-Turkish Wars).
	www.dejavu.org /cgi-bin/get.cgi?ver=93&url=http://articles.gourt.com/%22http%3A%2F%2Farticles.gourt.com%2F%3Farticle%3DShamil (464 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| Obituary: Shamil Basayev
		Shamil Basayev, who has died at the age of 41, was wanted by Russian authorities in connection with bloody attacks in Russia.
		Shamil Basayev had long threatened a series of "kamikaze" attacks inside Russia, arguing that Russian civilians were legitimate targets.
		Shamil Salmanovich Basayev was born on 14 January 1965, in the mountain village of Vedeno in south-eastern Chechnya.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/4727935.stm (768 words)

	Caucasus Foundation
		In 1990 the Imam's 'spiritual homecoming'(18) was reinforced by the establishment by the Avar national movement of the Shamil Foundation (Fond imeni Shamilia) which had strong informal connections to the (then) Daghestani Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
		Imam Shamil was one of the three heroes depicted on them.(34) Shamil's bicentennial was officially marked in the Chechen Republic.
		Therefore, Shamil's main effort was directed at the 'unbelievers' within rather than the 'infidels' without at the corrupt, 'collaborationist' local rulers and the erring, dispirited religious leaders who had led the people astray.
	www.kafkas.org.tr /english/analiz/historical_narratives_in_the_caucasus.htm (5944 words)

	Prophet of Doom - Islamic Clubs - Shamil Basayev Brigades
		While the death of Shamil Basayev in July 2006 was seen as a setback for the Paradise Brigades, the Islamic group remains an active threat to civilized people in the region, just as Islam remains a threat to the world.
		Shamil Basayev was born in the Chechen village of Dishne-Vedeno in 1965.
		Like the 19th century Islamic Imam Shamil, after whom he is named, Basayev hoped to impose the religion of submission on all people in the Caucuses region.
	www.prophetofdoom.net /Islamic_Clubs_Shamil_Basayev_Brigades.Islam (1233 words)

	The Background of Chechen Independence Movement II: The Sufi Resistance
		Shamil was skilful to employ the spreading of rumors before him, and he staged public spectacles that appealed on the sense of honor of the Caucasians, obliging them back to the united front.
		However, the numbers and weaponry of the Russians were overwhelmingly superior, and the aging Shamil met an increasing amount of military setbacks and defeats, having fought for a quarter of a century.
		While the time of the Murids from Mansur to Imam Shamil is known as the "Great Gazavat", the shorter but more intensive resistance war is known as the "Little Gazavat", and it was fought during the Russo-Turkish War in 1877-1878.
	www.cc.jyu.fi /~aphamala/pe/2003/tsets-2.htm (2400 words)

	CRS, Vol. 4, nr. 1, Art. 3
		Shamil had already become in his lifetime a legendary hero to both his countrymen and the Russians.(5) It was, however, Soviet historiography which enhanced his fame far beyond the Caucasus.
		Shamil, although not a Chechen himself, is one of the prominent leaders and symbols of this resistance.
		Shamil and the Conquest of Chechnia and Daghestan.
	poli.vub.ac.be /publi/crs/eng/0401-03.htm (6215 words)

	Imam Shamil — A Great Warrior of Islam - MPACUK :: Muslim Discussion Forum
		Imam Shamil and Hadji Murad, little known in the West, loom large in Russian jistory.
		He was a leader of anti-Russian resistance in the Caucasian War and was the third Imam of Dagestan and Chechnya (1834-1859).Imam Shamil was born in 1797 in the small village of Gimry, which is in current-day Dagestan.
		Shamil was born at a time when the Russian Empire was expanding into the territories of the Ottoman Empire and Persia (see Russo-Persian War, 1804-13 and Russo-Turkish Wars).
	forum.mpacuk.org /showthread.php?p=267624#post267624 (1273 words)

	As Old as the Hills
		It was 1871, and Imam Shamil, a legendary Dagestani warrior, had died after conducting one of the longest guerrilla campaigns in history against Tsarist Russia.
		According to Iriskhanov's calculations, he was three years old when Imam Shamil died, making him 134 years old today — nearly 20 years older than Marie Bremont, the 115-year-old Frenchwoman who was believed to be the world's oldest person until her death last week.
		His biggest dream was to grow a moustache like that of his hero, Imam Shamil, says Iriskhanov, repeatedly tracing the curly outline of the mustache in the air with his finger.
	www.themoscowtimes.com /stories/2001/06/15/103-full.html (1625 words)

	CENTRAL ASIA - CAUCASUS ANALYST
		BACKGROUND: News of the surrender of Imam Shamil, the Dagestani leader of Islamic resistance to Russian imperial policies in the North Caucasus, was greeted with celebrations across Russia.
		Shamil and his murids, along with dozens of families were trapped, starving as a result of the Russian siege.
		Princess Anna was a former confidante of the Tsar’s wife, and one of the largest landowners in Georgia, and Shamil sought to kidnap her as a way to bargain with the Russians for the release of his son.
	www.cacianalyst.org /view_article.php?articleid=4381 (1223 words)

	Shamil Basayev - Telegraph
		Shamil Basayev, who was killed yesterday aged 41, was a hero to his people in the Republic of Chechnya; elsewhere he was regarded as one of the world's most infamous terrorists.
		Shamil Salmanovich Basayev was born on January 14 1965 at Vedeno, in south-east Chechnya.
		His family is said to have had a long history of involvement in Chechen resistance to Russian rule, and he was named after Imam Shamil, who led the mountain tribes' resistance against the Tsarist armies in the 19th century.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/07/11/db1101.xml (1256 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Shamil
		Shamil Bank posts record net income of U.S.$ 50.2 million during 3rd quarter of 2006.
		Death of a Terrorist; Shamil Basayev, a Chechen warlord, was Russia's Osama bin Laden.
		Obituary - Shamil Basayev; To come.(Shamil Basayev, a Chechen warlord)(Obituary)
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Shamil (1057 words)

	Muslim freedom fighter stirs pride, fear in Russia - Turkish Daily News Apr 21, 2007
		Elite police troops had raided the town two nights before, demonstrating that in Imam Shamil's birthplace, his anti-Russian battle was as fresh to the authorities as it was to the villagers.
		Imam Shamil led Chechen and Dagestani volunteers against vastly superior numbers of Russian troops from 1829 until his surrender in 1859, earning renown as far as Victorian Britain as "the Lion of Dagestan."
		Shamil later followed in his footsteps to become the region's third imam, and the two remain deeply beloved here.
	www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /article.php?enewsid=70361 (887 words)

	Imam Shamil – A Great Warrior of Islam - Kavkazcenter.com
		His two sons (Cemaleddin and Muhammed efi) became officers in the Russian army, while two other sons Shamil continues to be revered in the Caucasus for his resistance to the Russians, and is held up as a role-model by those leading the current fight against Russian control of the region.
		Shamil gladly accepted him (Shamil had asked for his help early on but was refused by Murad).
		Shamil secretly arrabged to kill Murad as soon as his talents were no longer needed.
	www.kavkazcenter.com /eng/content/2006/12/09/6767.shtml (1298 words)

	RBSC : 2000-2001 Visiting Fellows - Friends of the Princeton University Library
		Imam Shamil's manuscripts, kept in Princeton University Library (Garret Collection - Jahuda Section), includes more than 120 works on different fields of knowledge: Tafsir, Hadith, Arab grammar, Muslim Law (Shafi'i mazhab), Sufizm, Muslim Cult, Theology, Logic, Poetry etc. The manuscripts are dated from the XIVth-century to the XIXth-century.
		Shamil's collection of manuscripts appears before us as a valuable monument of Muslim culture and science characterized a level of education in the Medieval Daghestan.
		The Shamil's collection in the possession of Princeton University is unique and one of the largest and valuable monuments of Arabic Manuscript Culture of Daghestan and the Caucasus on the whole in the XIXth-century.
	www.princeton.edu /rbsc/fellowships/2000-01/shikhsaidov.html (506 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| Shamil Basayev: Chechen warlord
		Shamil Basayev obviously enjoys the terrifying image he has in Russia.
		Basayev was born in January 1965 in the mountain village of Vedeno.
		He bears the name of the famous mullah and warrior Imam Shamil who led the mountain tribes' resistance to the Tsarist armies in the last century.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/460594.stm (755 words)

	CONTEXT - This Week in Arts and Ideas from The Moscow Times
		Imam Shamil led the mountain people of Dagestan and Chechnya in an armed struggle against tsarist troops for 25 years in the mid-19th century.
		Born in 1797 in a mountain village in Dagestan, Shamil excelled in religious studies as a teenager.
		Shamil was proclaimed the third imam of Dagestan in 1834, and in the same year he founded a state called the Imamate of Dagestan and Chechnya, which lasted until his capture by tsarist troops.
	context.themoscowtimes.com /print.php?aid=142168 (768 words)

	Wide Angle . Greetings from Grozny . Timeline: Explore Checnya's Turbulent Past \| PBS
		Sufi warriors, led by the guerilla commander and religious leader Imam Shamil, avenged their kin and led revolts against Russian occupation of Chechnya and Daghestan in a campaign that would last for more than 25 years.
		Shamil was finally forced to surrender to Russian troops in 1859.
		Imam Shamil united the peoples of the North Caucasus in an imamate.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/wideangle/shows/chechnya/timeline3.html (310 words)

	FT.com / Home UK / UK - A thistle in Russia's side
		Since many of Shamil's contemporary fans were Victorian newspaper readers, it is fitting that the key chronicle of his exploits should be a book called The Russian Conquest of the Caucasus, penned by English journalist John F. Baddeley 100 years ago.
		An early victory, coupled with the seizure of Shamil's six-year-old son as a hostage, led Tsar Nicholas I to put a mere £30 on Shamil's head, so sure was he the threat was over.
		Shamil was eventually worn down and captured, but he was allowed to end his days in the Muslim city of Medina.
	www.ft.com /cms/s/34987450-719a-11d9-9f56-00000e2511c8.html (1632 words)

	Shamil Basayev@Everything2.com
		Shamil Basayev is a product of Taleban-era Afghan terrorist training camps, and is currently Russia's most wanted man due to his co-ordination of terrorism inside Russia and his rebellious activities in the Caucasus.
		It was here that Imam Shamil fought his last battle against the Russian Empire, the one which finally sealed the fate of this part of the Caucasus.
		This Shamil was a Sufi dervish, and his warriors fortified themselves with the local faith.
	everything2.com /index.pl?node_id=1690975 (2102 words)

	Caucasian Knot : Persons
		In January 1993, at the joint meeting of Presidential Council and the Parliament of the Caucasian Peoples Confederation, Shamil Basaev was appointed a commander-in-chief of the KNK expeditionary forces in Abkhazia.
		Before that, Shamil's position was the commander of reconnaissance and sabotage battalion (RDB) of the Armed Forces of Chechnya-Ichkeria (commandos).
		In September 1999, Shamil Basaev was one of the commanders of the Chechen combatant incursion into Dagestan.
	eng.kavkaz.memo.ru /persontext/engperson/id/558638.html (1852 words)

	The Jamestown Foundation
		Khazi-Mullah, the first Imam of the North Caucasus, was born in Gimri, and it is here that a council of elders proclaimed him the Imam and the Leader of Gazavat (or Jihad) of the Caucasian nations against the Russian Empire in 1830.
		The third and most famous Imam of the North Caucasus, the national hero of Dagestan, Imam Shamil, was also born in Gimri.
		During the period of Soviet rule, when Stalin proclaimed Imam Shamil the leader of the national-liberation movement of the Caucasian nations against imperialist Russia of the tsars, Gimri became the spiritual and cultural center of Dagestan.
	www.jamestown.org /print_friendly.php?volume_id=416&issue_id=3583&article_id=2370662 (1057 words)

	CDV Russia RARE Islamic Rebel Imam Shamil 1870 Caucasus - (eBay item 150160698233 end time Sep-18-07 15:12:40 PDT)
		Imam Shamil was born in 1797 in the small village of
		Shamil and a small party of his closest followers, including some family miraculously managed to escape down the cliffs and through the Russian siege lines during the final days at Akhoulgo.
		Shamil seemed to have liked his luxurious detainment as well as the city as confirmed the letters he sent from Kiev.
	cgi.ebay.com /CDV-Russia-RARE-Islamic-Rebel-Imam-Shamil-1870-Caucasus_W0QQitemZ150160698233QQihZ005QQcategoryZ409QQcmdZViewItem (809 words)

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