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 a subject that generates constant controversy in Russian historiography and has often been misinterpreted by Western scholars.
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This review is from: Muslim Resistance to the Tsar (Hardcover)
An indepth look at an Amazing personality and the conditions surrounding his times. Moshe Gammer has done justice to his subject matter.
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This review is from: Muslim Resistance to the Tsar: Shamil and the Conquest of Chechnia and Daghestan (Paperback)
This book is a splendid analysis of the Russian conquest of Chechnya and Daghestan between the late 1820s and early 1850s. Its central theme is the collision between imperial Russia and the Muslim peoples of the Caucasus. Gammer traces the origins of the 'Islamic revival' that occurred in the Caucasus in the second quarter of the nineteenth century and shows how, under the leadership of Imam Shamil, that revival assumed a military dimension that challenged Russia's presence in the region. Gammer insists that Shamil and his followers were by no means the 'fanatics' or 'terrorists' imagined by the Russians. He argues that Shamil was a genuine believer in God and in Islamic law; that Shamil first sought accommodation with the Russians but soon became aware that the Russians were only interested in establishing imperial hegemony in the region; that Shamil was a shrewd politician who very nearly succeeded in unifying the ethnically diverse peoples of Chechnya and Daghestan under a common Islamic banner. The book is based on profound scholarship, but it is written in a lively narrative style. The text is accompanied by helpful maps and suggestive illustrations. Although Gammer's book focuses on the nineteenth century, its subject is timely in light of the two recent wars between post-Soviet Russia and the Chechens who, since Shamil's rebellion, may never have accepted Russian rule.
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The Caucasus Mountains have often been compared with the Pyrenees because of their asymmetry and steep southern slopes, their lofty deeply trenched eastern mass, their central ice-capped barrier bristling with high peaks, and their western division which gradually narrows and loses height, but gets more and more rain as it goes towards the sea. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
chief civilian administrator, separate pagination, new imam, second imam, third imam, first imam, two dispatches, forest warfare, few raids Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Gházi Muhammad, Hamza Bek, Qibid Muhammad, Lesser Chechnia, Akhbirdi Muhammad, Caucasian Corps, Hájj Táshó, Greater Chechnia, Left Flank, Lesghian Line, New Darghiyya, Ghazi Muhammad, Ahmad Khan, Black Sea, Ottoman Empire, Muhammad Mirza Khan, Crimean War, Georgian Military Highway, Southern Daghestan, Pakhu Bike, Urus Martan, Shaykh Muhammad, Gházi Mubammad, Muhammad Amin, Sublime Porte New!
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The Caucasus Mountains have often been compared with the Pyrenees because of their asymmetry and steep southern slopes, their lofty deeply trenched eastern mass, their central ice-capped barrier bristling with high peaks, and their western division which gradually narrows and loses height, but gets more and more rain as it goes towards the sea. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
chief civilian administrator, separate pagination, new imam, second imam, third imam, first imam, two dispatches, forest warfare, few raids Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Gházi Muhammad, Hamza Bek, Qibid Muhammad, Lesser Chechnia, Akhbirdi Muhammad, Caucasian Corps, Hájj Táshó, Greater Chechnia, Left Flank, Lesghian Line, New Darghiyya, Ghazi Muhammad, Ahmad Khan, Black Sea, Ottoman Empire, Muhammad Mirza Khan, Crimean War, Georgian Military Highway, Southern Daghestan, Pakhu Bike, Urus Martan, Shaykh Muhammad, Gházi Mubammad, Muhammad Amin, Sublime Porte New!
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- The Russian Conquest of the Caucasus by John Frederick Baddeley on 4 pages
- The Middle East and the West by Bernard Lewis in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Catherine the Great by Zoe Oldenbourg in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The prophet of the Caucasus: A Novel by Edmund Spencer in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Eastern Question by Karl Marx in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Russian-Muslim Confrontation in the Caucasus: Alternative Visions of the Conflict between Imam Shamil and the Russians, 1830-1859 (SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East) by Gary Hamburg on 11 pages
- Russia's Orient: Imperial Borderlands and Peoples, 1700-1917 (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies) by Daniel R. Brower on 4 pages
- Russia's Chechen War by Tracey C. German on 4 pages
- At The Edge Of Empire: The Terek Cossacks And The North Caucasus Frontier, 1700-1860 by Thomas Barrett on 4 pages
- Classical Islam and the Naqshbandi Sufi Tradition by Shaykh M. Hisham Kabbani on 4 pages
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